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VOL.
II.
Churches
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HENRY FROWDE
Coptic Painting.
THE
BY
ALFRED
J.
BUTLER,
M.A. F.S.A.
IN
TWO VOLUMES
VOL.
II.
All
rights reserved
~\
CONTENTS
OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
PAGE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
xi
CHAPTER
I.
FITTINGS OF THE
CHAPTER
II.
CREWET.
TEXTUS.
DOME OR
VEILS.
ASTER.
SPOON.
EWER AND
FAN.
CHRISMATORY.
GOSPEL-STAND.
CHALICE.
ARK OR ALTAR
BASIN.
PYX.
ALTAR -CANDLESTICKS.
THURIBLE. BRIDAL CROWN
CHAPTER
37
III.
AMBONS.
LIGHTS.
LECTERNS.
CORONAE.
INSTRUMENTS.
RELIQUARIES.
OSTRICH EGGS.
MURAL
PAINTINGS.
LAMPS AND
BELLS.
PICTURES
MUSICAL
.
64
Contents.
viii
CHAPTER
IV.
PAGE
PALL.
DALMATIC.
ARMLETS
AMICE.
.
CHAPTER
.97
V.
PHELONION.
CROWN OR MITRE.
GIRDLE.
PECTORAL CROSS.
BENEDICTIONAL CROSS.
EPIGONATION.
CHAPTER
SANDALS.
ROSARY
.173
,239
VI.
CHAPTER
VII.
PENANCE
CHAPTER
THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS
262
VIII.
CHAPTER
MATRI-
ORDERS.
(CONTINUED).
MONY.
OILS.
FASTING
THE
CONSECRATION OF A BAPTISTERY.
PHANY.
,301
IX.
HOLY
FESTIVAL OF EPI-
SEASONS OF
330
Contents,
CHAPTER
ix
X.
PAGE
LEGEND OF
ABU-'S-SIFAIN.
ANBA ZACHARIAS.
ANBA MARKUS
MICHAEL.
ARCH.
INDEX TO VOL. n
405
Coptic Painting
...
......
...
...
.
'
Coptic Altar
Marble Altar-slab
PAGE
frontispiece
"
Consecration Crosses
II.
.21
door at Al Mu'allakah
The Hasirah
or Eucharistic
Mat
Flabellum
Processional
of
Textus Case of
silver-gilt
used
silver-gilt
Church of Alexandria
Crown
Lamp
Bronze
at Sitt
Lamp
Seven-wicked
at
Mariam
Embroidered Dalmatic
front view)
47
49
.58
-59
.
...
Dair Tadrus
Lamp
Melkite
....
31
.41
-45
....
by the
62
66
.67
.70
.72
-73
.
76
.76
.no
119
List of Illustrations.
xii
PAGE
Stephen
from a painting
Fresco at Al Mu'allakah
St.
Michael
The Crown
Priestly
.130
-137
.151
156
..
from a painting at
Abu Sargah
at
Abu
Abu Sargah
ir
220
Coptic Crozier
Head
205
211
Cap
159
.167
......
.
232
234
278
THE
ERRATA.
Page
1 1
8,
1.
19,
163,
1.
2,
1.
23,
281,
,,
326, note
376,
1.
for
32,
for
Oo>
(London, 1852).
VOL. n.
i.
p.
228
List of Illustrations.
xii
PACK
Stephen
from a painting
Abu Sargah
at
Fresco at Al Mu'allakah
.>-,.
'
St.
Michael
from a painting at
The Crown
Priestly
..
Abu
Abu Sargah
Kir
Cap
Coptic Crozier
.130
.137
-151
.156
.159
.167
......
.
.'
205
211
220
THE
I.
Portable Altar.
Coverings of the
altar
ETYMOLOGICALLY
the ordinary word, means
'
place of making
the significance of this etymology
lessened by the fact that the remote root in ancient
Egyptian, from which the Coptic cycoocyi is derived,
has rather the meaning of 'placing' or 'leaving*
sacrifice':
nor
is
than of
word used
in
*>&<*
Greek Church.
The same word madbah is used now by the NesThe Greeks often call the altar the holy
torians
1
(London, 1852).
VOL.
II.
i.
p.
228
[CH.
Thus
i.
'
a letter
tur :' and Fortunatus 1 says the name is given quod
est mensa Domini, in qua convivabatur cum disciBut the Copts are not apparently conscious
pulis.'
of any such symbolism, nor do they commonly if
in
'
in the ritual
altar will
appear
in the sequel.
Every altar in a Coptic church is invariably detached, and stands clear in the middle of its chapel
or sanctuary.
Though the haikal and the sideare
chapels
usually raised one step above the choir,
the altar is never raised further on other steps, but
stands on the level of the floor
this rule
is
found
yet an exception to
where the
is
is
doubt-
Sarum
Rite 2
'
,
and again
So too
principale altare circumquaque aspergat.'
3
in the Ecgbert Pontifical we read in circuitu ipsius
'
altaris.'
De
Ecclesiae
C. 25 and 28.
Officiis, torn.
iii.
p. 21.
s
P. 40.
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
many
places a
incense.
is
that of the side walls, but contains an oblong rectangular sinking about an inch deep, in which is loosely
fitted
the altar-board
a plain piece of
wood carved
in the
have heard a
form of a
traveller
table.
125
n.
B 2
PU
Fig.
1.
The Altar.
CH.I.]
the altar
is
On
Whether or not
this door-
way was
like exists in
The
any church
but very
cavity is of varying size
often it is nearly co-extensive with the altar, which
in that case consists merely of four walls and a top
to-day.
Where
of masonry.
recess
the masonry
is
more
solid,
the
to denote a
large enough
usage rather
different from that of the corresponding recess in
is still
The
nearest approach
the Coptic altar
occurs at Parenzo in the altar of St. Euphrasius
in structure to
was required
to be of stone or marble as
an essential
condition of consecration.
The top too had to be a
slab
all
and forming a shelf,
on
sides
single
projecting
The Greek Church to the present day retains its
1
La Messe,
vol.
i.
pi.
xxvii
and xxxiv.
[CH.
ancient,
top on four
This top
pillars.
is
i.
altar-
Goar
of stone.
'
'
Up
to that
date
Asseman
states
that the
c.
370
altars of
A.D.
the Syrian
Thus among
the Nestorians
wooden
altars
Euchol. p. 832.
Bibl. Orient,
iii.
238.
The Altar.
.CH. i.]
So too one of
abodes and times of peace 1
the canonical judgments of Abu Isa is to the effect
that, where men are dwelling in a city free from persecution and peril, there the altar may never be
made of wood but if they are in some place where
a stone altar is impossible, then a wooden altar may be
used by force of necessity. But a bishop may always
2
The wooden
destroy an altar, if he think well
3
as used in the
altars mentioned by Mr. Warren
Irish
and
church
of
St.
elsewhere,
early
Bridget
were probably only an accident of the time when
the whole fabric of the church building was merely
of wood: and in the Anglo-Saxon ritual it was
expressly forbidden to consecrate a wooden altar.
Both in the Greek and Latin ordinances it was presettled
beyond the
only one
instance of such a projection in the altars of the
Copts. With them too the top is rarely formed of
a single slab. Commonly it is a mere plastered sur;
is
Where
J.
A. Asseman,
De
Nestorianorum Commentarius,
Id. p. ii 8, n. i.
similar slab
is
p. 112.
Chaldaeorum
is
,-j-UI,
i.
p.
et
Rome, 1775.
165.
Lit.
[CH.
i.
They occupy
A.J.B
SCALE OF FEET
Fig.
2. (i)
Marble Altar-slab.
(ii)
From
ful
that,
The
all
design
wherever
it
is
is
is
but
found,
it
identical.
may
fairly
be assumed
CH.
The Altar,
I.]
description,
which
are, in fact, as
normal there as
Mu allakah,
by
SCALE OF FEET
Fig. 3.
drain.
a marble slab
in
this
is
proved by
io
by the break
in the
[CH.
is
marked
At
\.
in
one
The
further strengthened by the hitherto unrebut very striking coincidence of western usage.
Rome
there
The
of Antiquaries of the
West of France
possesses a very
this
of
found
in
slab
the church of
kind,
interesting
3
Vouneuil-sous-Biard and ascribed to the sixth cen,
museum
at Valognes
4
:
is
preserved
the altar of S.
in the
Angelo
at
Nor
we
Coptic
1
are
altar.
La Messe,
In the
pi. xliv.
museum
On
p. 1 1 2
at
Vienna
is
a marble
M. de Fleury observes
'
:
Les
xlvii.
*
CH.
The Altar.
i.
\ i
outermost being six-lobed, the other two semicircular but all three have a broken angular line across
;
museum
of Clermont.
Abu Sargah
2
carving of the eighth century
almost decides the matter.
There our Lord
is sitting with his disciples at a table of almost
the
same form
Coptic horseshoe
slabs, and the table has a border or moulding round
it
moreover the intention is rendered quite unexactly
the
as
the
same
idea
in the
catacombs of
St.
is
depicted
Cambridge
As
in the
western so
La Messe,
vol.
lii.
i.
pi.
La Messe,
vol.
ii.
p. 164.
See
Abu
vol.
i.
Sargah
p. 191.
12
is
5 \ in. by 3
altar
is 7 ft.
cipal
ft.
Sifain
is
is
only 2
ft.
i.
The
height too
thus the chief altar at Abu
in.
varies considerably
Sargah
3 in.
ft.
i
[CH.
by 4 ft.
3 in.
in.
4
cavity, which has been mentioned as opening
eastward in the altar, has doubtless a symbolical
reference to the martyr-souls seen under the altar
in the apocalyptic vision
In the early ages of the
3
ft.
The
reminiscence of this vision, it was customary to bury the bodies of saints or martyrs
underneath the altar, either in a vault or crypt
beneath the floor of the sanctuary, or else actually
church, in
One
of the most
There
is
nothing
to
On
the contrary,
Rev.
vi.
9.
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
13
At Al
saint.
there
is
Mu'allakah,
a special
wooden
it
will
be remembered,
regarded as the tomb of any martyr. Still, inasmuch as tradition marks this under-chapel as the
resting-place of the Holy Family, and therefore consecrated in a special manner by a holy presence, the
building of the high altar of Abu Sargah above it
460
fifth
See La Messe,
Sotteranea, vol.
2
La Messe,
iii.
vol.
vol.
i.
p. 44.
ii.
p. 118.
xx v
*
14
At
present, as far as
i.
[CH.
if
closed
such as
may
Norwich and
be seen
still
St.
David's.
in
the
cathedrals
of
doorway very
i.
like
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
15
Abbey, where
Though
is
quite
'
'
'
So too
intended.
same form
Ordo Romanus
in the
exactly the
'
ponat crisma in
crucem
tune
The true con ressionary or crypt seems to have been introduced into
England by the Roman missionaries, and is in fact
2
It does not occur in any Saxon
essentially Latin
churches, except such as were built under the influence of Italian models, and is quite unknown in
Ireland.
Eadmer, c. 1000 A.D., describes that at
is
in
at
head of
St.
St.
Dunstan.
P. 45-
floor
underneath
Hist.
it
p. 47, &c.
its
LCH.
i.
The
and shrine
the Ceremoniale Episco-
own
altar
'
'
'
as follows
coffers.'
Richard,
prior of
80
about
the
1 1
several
altars
was considered
in the early
power of
multi-
now
MS. of the
Museum 3 may
In a
in the British
'
raro
fiat
propter
2
3
i.
c. 12.
Lansdowne, 451,
fol.
137
a.
vol.
i.
p.
219.
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
17
because
words of Euripides
in the
OdXaa-cra
iravra
Moreover, in
early times the piscina in English churches was a
drain at the foot of the altar on the westward side.
This is proved for instance by the words of the
Ecgbert Pontifical, according to which the holy water
that is left over after sprinkling a church at dedication
'
is
poured
piscina.
There
is
Goar, Euchol.
VOL.
it.
p. 15.
Id. p. 518.
[CH.
i.
'
Altare
in
82 1
A. D.,
writes
cavum, retrorsum
Hist.
lib.
ii.
c. 3.
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
19
1
The slab in the Vienna
H6rault, dated 457 A.D.
museum rested on three 'supports as did a slab in
the church of SS. Vincent and Anastasius at Rome.
:
2
.
in
a Cairo church,
in
relics.
Christen-
with five
La Messe,
vol.
i.
and
C 2
pi. xliii.
Ixxv.
2O
[CH.
i.
of Maison
at
Ripon.
slab
amples are
ex-
is
in the centre,
one
The
at each side.
is
;
signed
and
it is
On
the whole
altar, therefore,
consecration crosses.
though there
is
CH.
The Altar.
I.]
21
its
dedication in the
name
of the Father,
The
the Son, and the Holy Ghost respectively
use of chrism for the consecration of the altar is
1
episcoporum et
1.
On
2
.'
ad altare
This was
about 620
1
factis
A. D.
1677).
2
Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorutn, p. 166
p.
is
220
some(Paris,
22
[CH.
i.
speaks of five crosses, apparently one on the top and one on each of the sides.
in Gabriel's Pontifical
But where exactly the crosses were made is uncerThere is, as was mentioned, a central cross
carved on the altar-board, which fits into an oblong
depression on all such altars as have not a marble
top.
Probably one cross of chrism at least was
marked by the bishop upon the wooden slab,
though this would be against the western practain.
'
fiat.'
Subsequently
benedic huic tabulae ligneae, ut fiat altare
sanctum et mensa sancta pro altari excelso et lapide
the words
exstructo,'
'
seem
Lit.
Or. torn.
'
i.
p. 56.
Quinquies
mensam
et ejus
quattuor
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
ipsius
lateribus;'
though
here
23
again
the
points
We
day.
The
altar,
like
the
communicant, must be
fasting,' as
the Copts
is
to
tr.
Abu Dakn
by
8
Sir E. Sadleir
24
[CH.
i.
described as having
is
at the
'
'
five altars 2
show
one altar 3
Neale is very positive about the matter,
and adds nor is this peculiar to the church of Conthe rule is also observed in Ethiopia,
stantinople
Egypt, Syria, Malabar, by Nestorians and Jacobites,
in short over the whole East :' though with curious
.'
'
London
3
The
author
is
vol.
i.
p. 182.
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
25
wanting from the earliest times. However the question is one of rule, to be settled by rule.
And, so
one
need
that
the
law of
remark
regarding it,
only
three altars
is
plurality of altars.
PORTABLE ALTARS 1
The
altars,
1
Renaudot
altar.
He
26
[CH.
i.
who
those
is
are
of to-day
is
mappa benedictionibus
altaris
afferri et
removeri possint
Latinorum disciplinae de
Orientalis disciplina.'
which
vitiates
so
Ita
It is this perpetual
much
of Renaudot's
assumption by analogy
'Graecae
information.
Ecclesiae, cui aliae in Oriente similes sunt' (p. 166) is his maxim
in all cases of doubt.
So he says that for the most part there is
but a single altar in one church, a conclusion reached as follows
:
'Cum autem
obvious.
The
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
27
whom
he
a portable altar of wood to carry to his father. Tradition says that such a thing was never known before
and the concession was only justified by the peculiar
;
circumstances of the
Nubians,
who were
restless
J.
p. 1 20.
3
Renaudot,
Lit.
Or. vol.
ii.
p. 46.
et Nestor.
Com,
28
[CH.
new
;
i.
altar.
and
after
Their employment
was as common
it
in
the Greek as
was rare
in the
Coptic Church.
Many examples might be quoted to prove the
custom of using portable altars in western Christendom. In England the practice prevailed from the
earliest times, every large church possessing one or
more tablets of wood or metal, which the priests
could carry when they wished to minister to sick
people, or to celebrate in remote places where there
was no consecrated building. Perhaps the most
ancient extant specimen of the kind is the portable
altar used by St. Cuthbert, which is now preserved,
though in a mutilated condition, in the cathedral
characters.
THE
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
29
The
examples at
St. Mark's,
roof, as in
Abu
of Constance.
symbols.
2
xcvii.
30
[CH.
i.
No
It
it
For
in ancient
ings
times the altar was veiled with hangand though there is no instance of such curtains
in
while the
with hangings was not disused
seventh or eighth century panel at Abu Sargah, in
which they are figured, furnishes a good example of
altar
columns
in., from
the nearest corner of the altar so that there remained
quite room enough for the celebrant to move round
;
At
Abu-'s-Sifain the
CH.
The Altar.
I.]
is
ft.,
SCALE OF FEET
Fig.
5.
Silk curtain, with massive silver embroidery, before the haikal door at
Al Mu'allakah.
To this
needlework, or in tissue of gold and silver.
the
of
before
door
the
a
curtain
haikal
always hangs
day
embroidered either with a red cross or with figures.
32
[CH.
i.
tion
is
sufficient to
in
the same
curtains
at the
moment
of consecration.
Accordingly they
Euchologion,
p. 15.
CH.
The Altar.
i.]
33
At
and on
it
to serve
Lenten
veil.
In
The baldakyn
of silver
curtains
hung
at the north
moment
office.
VOL.
II.
vol.
i.
Cairo.
p. 230.
Baldac-
Ancient Coptic
34
C/ntrc/ies.
[CH.
i.
'
'
The
ivory tablet of Anglo-Saxon workmanship.
is
the
Adoration
of
the
the
subject
Magi
figures
:
Abu
arrangement is shown in
an engraving figured in Rock 1 and taken from an
illumination in Godemann's Benedictional.
Moreover the Ecgbert Pontifical orders the curtain to be
drawn across between clergy and people at the conThere was no elevation of the
secration of an altar 2
at
Sargah.
similar
England
1
Vol.
till
*
i.
p. 194.
*
Rock,
it
very
P. 45.
CH.
The Altar.
i.j
35
In
some churches,
entire width
in cathedrals
it
veil
hung
Rock,
vol. iv. p.
208.
36
and even
festivals,
in
common
The only
ing is sometimes put over the first
other form of altar-vestment that I have seen is
1
on Maundy Thursday,
year,
altar
attached
three,
TT/OO?
o-ap/ca
There
is
no
distinction of
name between
CHAPTER
Euchavistic Vessels
Chalice.
Basin.
II.
Veils.
Fan. Ewer and
Spoon. Ark.
Textus.
Chrismatory. Altar-candlesticks.
Thurible. -Bridal Crown.
Dome.
Paten.
Crewel.
Pyx.
Gospel-stand.
use five
I~'Nspoon,
instruments
and
ark.
None
Copts
dome,
of the extant chalices
chalice*, paten,
in
Elizabethan communion-cup
and the
below the stem instead of dividing it in
that of the
knop
is
noTHpIOIt.
38
[CH. n.
to be
:
and
churches of Egypt.
in the
The
Nestorians some-
that
the Council of
Rheims forbade
In
2
early Irish Church, though afterwards disallowed
In the thirteenth century tin was forbidden by the
.
3
But in
Constitutions of Archbishop Wethershed
eastern and western ritual alike gold or silver
seems to have been the normal metal for the
.
'
Archaeological Journal,
vol.
iii.
p.
133.
p. 143.
CH.
Eucharistic Vessels.
ii.]
carried
off,
39
men
singing and
years
later,
Forty
a
fine
spoiled,
chalice of ancient workmanship was found buried
under one of the altars, i. e. doubtless hidden away
I have
in the sepulcrum.
not seen any cross or
of
the
crucifixion
upon the foot of a
engraving
Coptic chalice, such as was usual in western
mediaeval chalices, though not in those of a more
bearing
lighted
tapers.
is
gene-
The dome z
consists of
At the celebration of
angles and rivetted together.
mass the dome is set over the consecrated bread
Arabic
..;^il,
Coptic
*f~
!XlCKOC.
4o
[CH. H.
'
instrument perhaps
but when
it is
The
spoon
is
Coptic communion
employed
;
custom
for the
3
.
siastics,
60,
Egyptians, of course, he
2
Arabic
q.iAl,
is
wrong.
Coptic
*f KOKXl^-pIOIt,
'fjULTCOHpI.
3
Fortescue's
*f JULTCTHp,
ARABIC.
BASE SILVER.
WOODEN CUP
TO
HOLD
WINE CRUET
CLASS LAMP OF
ARAB FORM
CH OF
ABU SARCAH
TEXT US -STAND
SHUT UP
CHURCH OF AMIR-TADRUS
OLD CAIRO
ABOUT
29X22"
SIZE.
STAND
WOODEN TEXTUS
>
WOODEN CHRISMATORY
6"
Fig.
6.
8"
42
or as strainers to remove
flies
and the
[CH. n.
like
from
the
analogue of the eastern
spoon in the early Latin Church was the tube or
pipe, such as is recorded in an inventory of vessels
given to Exeter church c. 1046. The use of the
chalice
while
other
pope
monasteries,
the
on
now
at
1
.
upon the
altar.
It consists
'
'
i.
e.
'the
CH.
Eucharistic Vessels.
ii.]
thus enclosed
is
it
43
is
about flush
ings,
quent
figures.
are modern and artistically worthless, but one beautiful ancient specimen I discovered at Abu-'s-Sifain,
and of
place
this
full
is
description
given
in
another
*.
There
can,
be no doubt that
think,
is
this taber-
the mysterious
'
in
vexed question at
rest.
They
dered by Neale 3
Vol.
i.
pp. 109,
3
'
no.
i.
p. 186.
s. v.
44
[CH. n.
are mine,)
leave no doubt whatever that
its dedication is intended not for the
the ark at
and even
this
It
ignorant.
may be
true, as
Neale
alleges, that in
the Ethiopian Church the host actually is sometimes reserved in the ark but that is an accident,
and a perversion of the original intention.
;
the
304.
CH.
Eiicharistic Vessels.
II.]
at the
mass
will
45
be explained
in
another chapter.
Before the commencement of the mass the sacred
elements are covered with a veil or corporal called
sJUJJi in Arabic, and ni
veil is of white or coloured
npoc^pm
square
the middle
Fig. 7
is
in Coptic.
The
The Hasirah
or Eucharistic Mat.
Renaudot
'
(I.e.)
remarks that
this,
is
called
no doubt
anaphora
Nauphir
the term used by the Syrians, but the Coptic name is that given
the text.
is
in
46
[CH. n.
Greek
The
drjp
or
ve<f>e\rj.
use of the
fan
ated in the sultry East, where being almost a necessity of daily life, it passed very early into the service
of the Church.
'
Two
made
'
'
'
chalice.'
A.D.
624
2
.
made of
type
is
common
metal, either gold or silver.
that given in the illustration, a disk of silver
The whole
ed.
H. Menardus,
cited.
Fig.
8.
Flabellum
in
repouss^
silver.
48
[CH. n.
elaborate candlestick.
It
may
this
fan in the
Greek
ritual.
the
and
are,
believe, used at
solemn
festivals, if
not in
at
woven
faces
is
same purpose
monasteries
in
in
See
illustration,
page 41 supra.
still
as
CH.
II.]
Eucharistic Vessels.
49
processional ornament
among the Melkites, as
will
illus-
tration.
We
constantly read of
fans carried in procession
in the
rather
value.
Gear's
than
practical
seraphim
mounted on a
short handle,
an
instru-
service
in
hymn of victory,
driving
flies.
It
pax and
and again
VOL.
II.
fan
is
employed; and on
50
[CH. n.
clear
by a white
pall
which
is
borne by deacons
and round
found
in the
Greek.
the
silver or brass
having a
surrounded with a number of little bells.
These bells are no doubt meant to call attention to
the special part of the office which is being performed
and
may
in the
corporal, stole, or
dalmatic.
full
is
given
in the
Rev. S. C. Malan's
Ordo
catechumenorum, ex
i.
p.
251.
CH.
Eticharistic Vessels.
ii.]
51
We
and
bolical of the quivering wings of the seraphim
a Russian eyewitness of the ceremony mentions the
noise of silver fans' as being strange to. him, but not
:
'
The
flabellum found
its
way
its
.
at
Two
figures
which seem to be flabella are incised on an eighthcentury altar, which stood in the church of St. Peter
at Ferentillo 2
In an inventory at St. Riquier near
.
'
See paper
at
'
Paris
in Archaeological Journal
vol. v.
2
La Messe,
vol.
i.
pi. Iviii,
and
E 2
p. 171.
by
Way,
52
'
[CH. H.
choires
Library at
waving a
own
Coming
in the
Crypt of
St. Paul's
had a
'
muscatorium,' or
Thus
in the
in Suffolk, there is
of pekok's fethers.'
From the connection of the Irish Church with the
East, it is not surprising to find evidence for the use
of the fan as early as the sixth century in the sister
island.
The Book of Kells has an illumination
of Treves
the
symbols
evangelistic
hand and a
curious
figure
holds
of the conjoined
flabellum in one
Matthew
St.
bellum 2
is
hand a
fla-
Irish
2
3
Vol.
Hi. pt. 2. p.
194.
CH.
Eucharist ic Vessels.
ii.]
The
the pax.
consciousness of
symbolical value
late in
existent, differs
its
53
used
in
a curious manner.
s. v.
Flabellum.
54
[CH. n.
Thus
after
was delivered
to the acolyte.
manile
called xepviftov.
Receptacles for the reserved host in the Coptic
is
common when
;
the practice
minebat.'
The same
Still this
C. 93.
3
Lit.
Or. vol.
i.
Vol.
p. 116.
iii.
pt. 2. p.
34
n.
CH.
Eucharistic Vessels,
ii.]
55
Now
daily consecrations.
pyx, unless it
tabernacle or altar-casket
held
At
Abu
Crewets of gold or
silver
to be found.
But there is one singular
which
of
the
has been already noticed.
Copts,
usage
In several of the churches,
Mari Mina, for example,
in
a
small
not
all,
though
glass crewet filled with
glass
is
unconsecrated wine
may be
There
no such arrangement
Cairo cathedral,
nor does the position of the crewet connect at all
with any point of the present ceremonial.
One can
only surmise that it is the relic of some forgotten
is
in the
56
At
ritual practice.
Sitt
Mariam Dair
[CH. n.
Abu-'s-Sifain
The
Vatican.
III., c.
John
ordered crewets
of the martyrs
among
560
A.D., is related to
have
the
onyx.
by
may be found
lid.
The box
is
solid
Evidence of this
against the altar, but not upon it.
remains in the monastic churches of the desert,
still
in
See
illustration
on
p.
41 supra.
CH.
Eticharistic Vessels.
ii.]
57
lights, still
altar,
century.
Of
had
of Egypt an account
given elsewhere.
to the altars or churches
The
of the Copts, though upon every altar is found lying
down (not set upright) a small hand-cross for cerecrucifix
is
is
unknown
medallions of mother-of-pearl.
Among the altar-furniture of the Coptic churches
may be counted the book of the gospel, whose usual
resting-place
is
upon the
1
Etym.
xii.
29.
58
[CH. H.
is
sealed against
all
opening.
The
outer case
.13.0
Fig. 10.
CH.
Eucharistic Vessels.
II.]
59
they
MSS.
contain
still
AJ.B
Fig. 11.
One
cased textus
it
is
reverently
is
finished,
the silver-book
The same
who places it
and when the gospel
to the deacon,
is
in
which the
60
[CH. n.
Amir Tadrus,
The
fans.
silver-cased gospel
is
silver
and crosses
is
made
in
noted
is
gospel, though
it
it
cannot ascertain
its
exact nature
cumhdach than
Allusion to
it
Irish
who
in
is
such a
way
to read out of
it
1
.
that the
is
it
torn.
ii.
p.
271.
CH.
Rucharistic Vessels.
ii.]
6r
ing,
closed
by jewelled
hermetically
clasps.
in
Though
our
solid
with
.'
while
gold with sixty-two precious stones
cathedral
in
less
than
no
1315,
Canterbury
possessed,
seven similar gold-cased books and many in silver.
Many too were at St. Paul's, St. Peter's in York,
2
But the resemblance of
Lincoln, and other places
solid
Ireland,
are the
so
62
[CH. n.
^
w
***
4--
v^ v:
{
relief
common
metal,
is
in all
the
more
workmanship, resembling
those used in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries in the
West.
little
bells attached.
Lastly
Fig. 12.
Bridal
Crown.
of St. Stephen
a later chapter.
may be mentioned
as
CH.
Eucharistic Vessels.
ii.]
63
a proper appurtenance of the altar the marriagediadem. This is a coronet of silver or gold, adorned
with texts, crosses, or other suitable ornamentation
:
repousse"
an Arabic text
of pellets.
The ground is covered with fine tooling,
and a brief donative inscription is engraved at either
end by the rings.
The use of the crown, wKich at the outset was regarded as a heathen ornament, dates notwithstanding
from so early an epoch, that it was sanctioned and
In
enjoined by the Church in the fourth century.
Greek ritual, as in the Coptic, bride and bridegroom
are both crowned the same custom holds with the
Armenians, who however use a wreath of flowers in
:
lieu
is
of a metal diadem.
not
altar
'
'
vol.
iii.
pt. 2. p.
174.
CHAPTER
III.
Lecterns.
Ostrich Eggs.
Pictures.
Coronae.*
Reliquaries. Lamps and Lights.
Mitsical Instruments. Mural Paintings.
Bells.
OLYGONAL
Furniture.
perilous.
One cannot
therefore
65
determine
safely
like
But
is an
octagonal wooden pulpit in one of the
churches of the Natrun valley, which must be as old
there
In England pulpits' were not used before the thirteenth century, previous to which the sermon was
delivered from the roodloft but in neither our own
:
The
lectern in use
among
the Copts
is
a moveable
finest
example
is
is
that
now
II.
it
may
date
66
Fig. 1?.
[CH.
m.
Furniture.
CH. in.]
Fig. 14.
F 2
68
[CH.
m.
The
always stands
lectern
in
the
of right to a side-chapel.
the East with his back to the congregation.
Coverings of silk or some rich material are some-
That
at
Anba Shanudah
dered with a
An
erally left
instruments used
triangles,
metal rod.
in
divine
service,
i.e.
cymbals,
ambon
in
the
forbidden by the
Coptic Church, yet the faithful have a firm belief in
1
See the
illustrations
The examples
of this in
is
La Messe,
vol.
iii.
pi.
cxciv-cci.
C H.
Furniture.
in.;]
their sovereign
virtue.
69
1-
to the healing
ailments.
and
their
But while
bestowed
in the
church of
Rome and
:
lights of the
so doubtless
and wealth
in
Egyptian churches
come
yo
[CH.
m.
Kensington.
led colours
two
in plain
lingers in one or
churches, as at Abu
still
year,
is
Abu-'s-Sifain.
in
.
15
at Abu-'s-Sifain.
the
desert,
The
churches
monasteries
of the
and
of
many
the
of Cairo,
ancient
mosques
were quite lately adorned with these magnificent
lamps but shortly before the war all that remained
were taken down by order of the then prime minister,
Riaz Pasha, and stowed away in packing cases in
:
It is
museum
now they
See the
illustration
on
p.
41 supra.
Furniture.
CH. in.]
71
The
sultans.
first
of the Circassian
Mameluke
earth
his light
the lamp
is
in
glittering star.'
is
as a niche in which
is
a lamp
J2
[CH.MH;
Fig. 16
Almost
Glass
Lamp
at Sitt
Mariam.
and not
less
Furniture.
III.]
73
10 in. in height, and the beauty of their shape is enhanced by pierced designs which give them an air of
great lightness and elegance. Many of the specimens
are quite modern and of base silver for though the
;
art of
working
in glass
is
lost,
metal-working
flourishes in Cairo,
still
and these
have
shapes
handed down
been
to the present
day.
loose
lamp
spherical bosses.
of this description
^Tlf
Bronze
Lamp
is
have seen
very
two or three in Dair Tadrus.
Bell -shaped
and
cups
rare,
Fig. 17.
at
Dair ladrus.
but
rimmed bowls of
plain white
suspended by chains
the Coptic churches, and are
glass
are
common
in
all
In the middle ages there was in use a very beautiform of lamp, of which I have never seen a perfect
74
It
specimen surviving.
the
common
[CH.
m.
after
Old Cairo
was common
mentioned
in
the
in the
West, and
is
often
Cluny and
St.
Lenoir's Architecture
and Pullan.
Remy.
Monastique,
is
Furniture.
CH. in.]
of course
derived from
the
75
lighthouse
great
of
flung
Two
away disused
.belong
'
upon a hoop of
by a chain from
Bede speaks of a
'
Of
the curious seven-wicked lamp of iron at Abu's-Sifain, the cresset-stone at Anba Shanudah, the
will
Vol.
i.
p.
200.
76
JLJ.B
Fig. 18.
Seven- wicked
Lamp
TT
Fig. 19.
Specimens of Altar-candlesticks.
[CH.
Furniture.
CH. in.]
77
were
same
in
common ornament
and
were employed.
2
*
See Warren's
Vol.
iii.
See the
their Rituals
Lit.
pt. 2. p.
and
in
These have
Church,
p. 53.
244.
illustration in Dr.
(London, 1852),
Badger's work,
vol.
ii.
The
facing p. 20.
Nestorians and
j8
[CH.
m.
common ornament
in
our
In an inventory of 1383
than nine are mentioned as belonging
1
to Durham cathedral
and Pennant speaks of two
as still remaining in I/So 2
These griffins' eggs
were hung up with other curiosities such as the
horn of a unicorn before the altar or round St.
A.D.
no
less
'
'
Cuthbert's
They were
shrine.
merely rarities
from
brought by
foreign lands,
and presented as offerings of devotion to the church
and in some chancels special aumbries with locked
gratings were provided for them. Many of the richer
churches had quite large collections of curiosities, and
served as a sort of museum. But in our own country
the ostrich-egg does not seem to have had any symbolical import or to have been regarded as a distinctly
ecclesiastical ornament.
From the fact that marble
eggs are said to have been discovered in some early
martyrs' tombs at Rome, and that in all Christian
soldiers or pilgrims
Raine's
Tour
in
An
Tomb
Wales,
of
vol.
ii.
Furniture.
CH. in.]
was given
to
me
In contradiction to
is
79
among
common
belief,
he said
with which she guards her eggs and the people have
a legend that if the mother-bird once removes her
eyes from the nest, the eggs become spoiled and
;
worthless
that
instant.
So the
vigilance
of the
churches.
'
'
rang
Alexandria to
king's letter
1
.
call
The
many
Al Makrizi, Malan's
80
in
[CH.
It is
m.
used now
it is
is
To
in
1352
monks on
this
the board.
day the
They
are merely
stones suspended
flat
known
is
said to
The
have
mallet and
board however are frequently depicted in the paintings at Mount Athos. The Maronites use two boards
which form a sort of large clapper. Instead of wood
we sometimes find a plate of iron or brass hung by
chains 3 which was called sementron' or 'semantron.'
Gongs of this kind are figured in Curzon's Monasteries 4 and they are mentioned by Leo Allatius, who
'
cites
employment.
1
1883, p. 236.
2
Goar's Euchol. p. 560.
4
On the title-page a monk
tron,
p-
authorities for
Lenoir,
i.
their
in the
London,
p.
155.
shown beating a wooden semanand another wooden gong and also one of iron are given on
300-
is
81
Furniture.
CH. in.]
narthex or atrium
bells
more than a
reason.
livered to
1
him
Cf. Udalric,
at his consecration;
lib.
i.
Consuet. Clun.
Off. lib.
iv. c.
VOL.
II.
c.
12,
and a
bell of this
quoted by Ducange,
by Rock.
22, quoted
82
[CH.
m.
Sarum 2
in 1265,
in
the same
procession in the visitation of the sick
usage prevailed also in funeral processions. The use
:
when
be adopted
in
The
is
always tongueless, and
struck with a short rod of iron.
bell
is
Pp. 92-94.
Rock,
ii.
462, n. 31.
Furniture.
CH. in.]
83
churches.
gift
by Du Cange
l
,
frequent in the
of cymbals to a church
and
allusion to
cymbals
Ordo Romanus.
is
is
quoted
not un-
Sometimes no
aged or
ailing
among
the con-
was customary
to lay
MURAL
till
the middle of
PAINTINGS.
'
'
'
'
2
3
From
Vol.
ii.
p. 134, n. 22.
It
Malan's
303.
p.
transl. p. 56.
84
There
[CH.
m.
and there is decided evidence to the conThree centuries later, we read that one
trary.
Usama ben Zald pulled down churches, broke the
crosses, rubbed off the pictures, broke up all the
buildings,
'
'
'
Abu
days of
Salah
the
remains
its final
extinction in
Al Makrizi, p. 77.
This name has quite vanished
among
Id. p. 84.
diligent enquiries
The
spelling
JL y\ is
given in
MS. 307.
CH.
Furniture.
m.]
85
style
of decoration.
Thus
at
Abu Sargah
still
is
retains in
its
apse some of
its
original eighth-
century paintings.
pillars
in the nave which are unaltered, the colour and
outline of the figures once blazoned upon them
are
still
church
dimly discernible.
interesting as
drapery, and
more
life
All are
stiff outlines.
But there are signs of
and freedom sometimes to be found in the
86
[CH.
m.
K. Burbarah.
In Al Mu'allakah
itself there remains only one single incomplete figure
on a pillar. Anba Shanudah has also one figure
on a pillar, and some very rude uncoloured frescoes
in the chapel of Mari Girgis above it.
Traces of a
monochrome design of the Baptism of our Lord may
be seen also on the eastern wall of the chapel of
Sitt Mariam over the mandarah of Abu-'s-Sifain.
Besides the foregoing examples, most of the niches
in the sanctuaries and other chapels contain a fresco
figure of Christ in glory, his right hand raised in the
attitude of benediction.
This figure, found in the
tombs of Urgub in Cappadocia and common all over
the East, may be seen also in some Roman and
Lombard churches, but not elsewhere in the West 1
in the triforium of
The
All over
Red Sea
its
frescoes.
p. 42.
Furniture.
CH. in.]
87
PICTURES.
The
either
by date or
style,
owing
to the persistence of
Bvzantine
methods and traditions.
*
small
number
of pictures clearly
artists in Italy.
\M-*
the
same period
or even
if
somewhat
later,
it
is
88
[CH.
m.
The wood
therefore,
common
in
is
not
This point
is
by two
in
pictures for instance in the writer's possession
which flakes of colour have fallen off revealing a
The gold seems to have
surface of gold below.
been burnished
pure metal, as in our best manuscript illuIn some cases the principal outlines of
minations.
the design were engraved on the gold with a steel
ing like
of scrollwork or dotwork
of saints
is
stamped
from which the frontispiece
is
taken bears
in
Arabic
for a
most beautiful
effect
and as
Furniture.
CH. in.]
of Coptic painting.
No
89
There
is
human
figure
more ancient
the wonder
is
not so
divine or
much
that
all
Abu-'s-Sifain
been painted
by the hand of St. Luke the Evangelist. The legend
is that the Venetians seized it, and put out to sea
meaning to carry it away but five times they were
:
Voyage
its
fait
p. 183.
90
[CH.
m.
go out with
their booty.
unholy enterprise.
legend, extant remains of mural painting prove that
in the fourth
such
skill in
1477 A.D.
In com-
Furniture.
CH. in.]
91
expressiveness
and the
there
the
is
same
Yet the
technical
Works
is
a marked su-
the stiffness
of
tied
and bound by
manner as the
no analogy
who
fifty
same
There is
art of the
Greek Church.
the
it
is
manner of the
Nor are
who still
thirteenth
century.
not merely in style that the Coptic
same
subject.
The
arch-
92
[CH.
m.
sometimes
in
in
is
all
member a single
good shepherd
instance of the same
panel.
Not
do not
re-
figure depicted
less
remarkable
the absence of
stags, occur in
there
is
to bear witness to
first
On
Christian symbol.
abound
tively
the
use of IXOUC
as
in paintings
Coptic,
are
still
Roma
1879,
vol.
p. 45.
Furniture.
CH. in.]
93
Our
in hell.
frescoes of skulls
devils.
It
The church
fresco
at
in
still
Andrea Orcagna
in the
Campo Santo
Duomo
at Pisa,
at Torcello.
and
So too
in
humour
'
.'
94
[CH.
m.
cello
and the
at
some
The
Mount Athos
centuries.
are in
some
cases quite
frescoes
modern
if
tion.
and
Pullan
are
right
in
these
thinking
horror-
the time
when
the worship of
all
Rather,
if
the time
Stones of Venice,
vol.
ii.
Byzantine Architecture,
App.
p. 41.
CH. in.]
Furniture.
95
be just as reasonable to dwell upon the extraordinary resemblance between the mediaeval paintings
of hell throughout Europe and the place of torment
and
depicted in the Buddhist paintings of India
to frame from this resemblance a theory of the conBut there
nexion of Byzantine art with Buddhist.
I
recondite
no
of
is
think,
need,
any
searching.
Similar phases of belief and of artistic utterance
may have quite independent origins and developments.
One has only to remember how as time
went on the primitive idea of Christian life and
thought hardened down to an intolerant dogmatism
in theology, while its spirituality was sapped by
a vulgar craving for artistic realism and it is then
easy to understand how, from the slender material
furnished by Holy Writ, a depraved taste and a
diseased imagination, working in an age of superstition, devised and painted in colours horrors worse
than those of any heathen Tartarus.
Passing now from subject to form, one may note
that the Copts do not share the Byzantine or Greek
1
this
vol.
p. xxxiii.
g6
[CH.
m.
Of
course the silver casing is designed as a safeguard against the damage which would arise from
the custom of kissing pictures.
From time to
time there seem to have been outbreaks of iconoclastic violence against the pictures in the churches
of Egypt.
Thus as late as 1851 the patriarch
the
tasteless builder of the present hideous
Cyrillus,
much
rever-
their
in
They pray
certain
houses,
before
them, as offerings
religious
merit.
small
mostly of
them, and
in
number of
fulfilment
The
the men.
saints
Mercurius 2
superstitious than
so worshipped
are
chiefly
St.
(1)
(2)
b^-*-H ^-+*i
mences in 284
j->^-
or
Nativity,
(3)
sjs*, the
com-
A. D.
**"-
*,
= A. D.
Mohammedan
CHAPTER
The
IV.
Previous Authorities.
Dalmatic. Amice.
Armlets.
A RIO US
treat of
Girdle.
Stole.
Pall.
writers
Coptic
ecclesiastical
difficulty
to
vestments
of reaching
method
own information
by
cor-
written.
The
VOL.
first list
II.
to
be given here
is
98
Arab
historian
Abu Dakn
1
,
[CH. iv.
as rendered in English
Oxford
in 1675.
It is not surin
arise
a
that
such
mistakes
process of
prising
translation and retranslation, even if the liturgical
author, published at
terms
accurate
and
than vexatious,
who
liturgical
is
language
2
.
But to proceed
Abu Dakn
'
is
be suggested presently.
will
2.
Dalmatic.
This statement
1
is
extremely doubtful.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
Cope.
5.
The
Latin
is 'pallium cum
stated to be used at
rendering
cucullo,'
99
is
'
tation.
list
given by Vansleb *,
who
He
as the
1.
number of
priestly vestments,
viz.
6.
Stole.
7.
clearly
Abu Dakn,
al
Vansleb gives
ioo
[CH. iv.
Renaudot 1
on
vestments as follows
1. Aid or dalmatic of silk.
2. Epomis or amice of white
:
Stole.
3.
Girdle.
4.
and
silk.
6. Sleeves.
silk.
1.
2.
3.
Aid
4 and
6.
5.
Sleeves.
Stole or
which
the
priest hangs
from his neck.
Chasuble or cope (?)
Camisia sive alba,'
7.
which for bishops has an orfrey of gold or precious
embroidery round the neck, but not for priests. If
we compare this statement with Vansleb's, it seems
7nrpax^Atoi>,
'
'
ill
1847,
410., vol.
i.
pp. 161-163.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
101
'
Sabd
It
the
is
a dalmatic.
2.
'
This
is
called in
Arabic
This writer
is
is
own
constantly called
it
i.
p. 309.
IO2
[CH. iv.
which
have
cited.
remarks,
Now
there
is
some evidence
that
the
breastplate or rational was used as a regular ChrisMarriott gives an entian vestment in the East.
'
offered
2
4
Id. p. 17.
Ivii.
and
p. 245.
Id. p. 14.
Greek Church,
p. 39.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
103
The
varkass
stiff collar,
and
it is
analogous,
and niXonon
synonyms.
The Girdle needs no explanation: it has the
3.
authority of all antiquity, and a special meaning
among the Christians of the East since the Moham'
medan
conquest,
the khalifs as
and Muslim.
very rigorous in
;
Fortescue's
Armenian Church,
p. 133.
IO4
[CH. iv.
rise to
many
foolish inter-
pretations'
There
is little
need to
The
remarks.
'
by the Venetians. The secular ordinance enjoining upon the Christians the wearing of a girdle,
to distinguish them from the Muslims, was first issued
not by Al Hakim, but a century and a half before
first
that time
judging by native
shape,
though
1
information.
The
think, a mistake.
The
'
'
unknown
in ritual!
The etymology
is
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
knew
little
am
it
appear
Greek
the
word he
105
still
more
Abu Saba
is
tinderstand
A rabic]
The
the
and
the
want
of a
definite nomenclature, Coptic or Greek, corresponding to the Arabic : they will not repay study, as
they are not clear about the ancient form of the vest-
ments,
little
changed,
106
must
be settled by observation,
and
[CH. iv.
not by written
evidence.
'But
very
it is
answer
The Burmis answers to tlte
whence
fashion.
the shoulders, as in
Goars
a,s
rich
They
are jealously guarded, and may not be removed from
the church or tJte sacristy, as ordained in the most
considered as profaned,
sultan
we read
to
burn
There
that the
Ja-
the sacerdotal
is
scarcely
any
guished, as
orfreys,
among the
and crosses'
Greeks, by embroidered
circles,
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
107
The
and he
is
doubtless right.
The cope
in
was rather an
ornament
discusses.
is
by Vansleb.
Between Renaudot and Denzinger, who published
rightly described
'
Vol.
ii.
p. 55.
io8
[CH. iv.
of the subject.
correcting
mistake
word of
original criticism,
zinger's
work
valuable
it
He
of inconsistent evidence.
neither attempts to
who have
ities
in
much
'
Cidaris
turque
nihil
aliud
torn.
i.
p. 130.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
of vestments
is
109
THE DALMATIC.
(Coptic ni
noTHpion,
ni cyeirroo, -f jm^pim^ or
Thus Ibn al
accordance with primitive custom 2
'Assal quotes a canon of Basil that vestments for
the celebration must be of white and white only/
and the Imperial Canons similarly enjoin that the
priestly vestments must reach down to the ankles
in
'
'
name
the
in the
though
West
at
any
rate
'
tunlah.
1
The
The name
dalmatic
is
here retained
me by Abuna
MS.
2
authority.
TlOTHpIOIl
is
Tr
iv.
no
[CH. iv.
The
;
the
and the
colobion had short close-fitting sleeves
colobion is said to have been abolished in favour of
]
Fig. 20.
find that
Embroidered Dalmatit.
Roman pontiff,
retains to this
fell
Vest. Christ, p.
Ivii.
in.
n. 220, calls
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
\ \
where
of the Virgin
her
left
arm
Mary holding
below
this is
Girgis slaying the dragon, and a dedicatory inscripOn each sleeve is the figure of an
tion in Arabic.
angel with
outspread wings
a border
enclosing
some
wrought
in fine stitches
with
silk,
harmonising well
The white
is
respectively
is
a distinction
embroidered in gold or silver or fine needlewhile instead of Virgin and angels the deacon's
dalmatic has merely small coloured crosses.
sleeve,
work
At
the time
when
the
dalmatic was
ordinary
commonly mentioned
[CH. iv,
ancient
in
writings.
for
and
These
early
colour
for
saint,
or apparels.
But in mediaeval times the use of
various colours in the vestments of the Latin Church
.
became systematic
Warren's
Lit.
Id. p. 114.
and
Rit.
p. 124.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
113
Damshiriah.
VOL.
II.
Rock,
vol.
I
ii.
p.
100.
but
it
is
ii4
[CH. iv.
fine
circles,
to the wrist
patriarch
dalmatic embroidered
who
all
is
figured
over with
embroidery.
One other example of the Coptic dalmatic deserves
At the church of Abu-'s-Sifain, on
special mention.
the north side of the nave near the ambon, are two
paintings representing Constantine and Helena reEach of these figures is vested alike,
spectively.
and they have both the alb and the dalmatic. Here
the alb is long and rather loose, while the dalmatic
is
reaching only a
is
little
further remarkable
in the
lower hem,
authorities
make no mention
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
in
115
any way
worn together
confirm such a
distinction.
The tuniah
seems
to
in the
mutilated
be found
in
the
full
in Coptic rubrics *.
described by the Greek patriarch
Germanus, perhaps the first of that name, early. in
The sticharion
the eighth century, as follows 2
cmf^x^pi
The vestment
is
'
life
common
also
to
the
Roman
dalmatic.
Marriott
good example
stripes in an
eastern vestment from the very ancient fresco at the
rock-cut church of Urgub, as mentioned by Texier
and Pullan another good instance is the fresco at
Nekresi in Georgia, figured by Rohault de Fleury
and examples abound in the East and West alike.
There is, however, a slightly different form of sticharion worn by bishops, in which there are not two
but several vertical stripes 4
For this form, as for
the ordinary striped sticharion, no strict counterpart
exists in Coptic usage, although the Greeks have a
!
quotes
of these
u6
[CH. iv.
are
all
tiny
pearls
strung close
woven of gold
is
tissue.
It
agrees with
much
the
^o,
The
Syrians retained
Lit.
Or. vol.
Fortescue's
ii.
p.
4.
Armenian Church,
p. 133.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
robed
in a
white
117
tunic.
our western
(Coptic
ecf>oTT
We
ritual.
THE
AMICE.
ui
&<LXXm,
n.Xin,
2
:
Arabic cxs^l
have found
Abu Dakn
Xovion
ni
*UM, t/LuLvy
1
,
ni
3
1
.)
'
church.'
'
'
'
church
'
by a translator ignorant of
technical
limitation to the
the
its
altar.
'
Abu
Dakn would
in
it
list
of
distinctively sacerdotal vestments. Vansleb more explicitly describes the amice as a long band of white
linen,
priests
and
deacons.
Notice that
XoVIOft
or Xdytnr
is
the
word used by
St.
Jerome
is
'
'
Il8
Abu Dakn,
[CH. iv.
Deacons, of course,
as suggested above.
is
worn by
'
priests
and
who
all
adding
to. our
will
knowledge about
it.
By putting together these small pieces of information, we shall arrive at the fact that the amice is
or linen, worn
twisted round
head by priests and deacons.
This definition answers almost word for word with
silk
the
the
kummus
silk,
is
CH. iv.]
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
119
for
the
Fig. 21.
but
Ancient Coptic
20
silk,
As
it
CJntrches.
[CH. iv.
gold.
length is about 8 ft. and
breadth i ft. but a specimen in the writer's possession measures no less than i6ft. 8 in. in length and
in
a rule
its
ft.
merely a conventionalised form of the same ornament, and consists of a broad strip of linen or silk,
which hangs down the back and ends upwards in a
hood, instead of being twisted round the neck and
over the head, as the shamlah.
It is only upon
such
as
Good
occasions,
special
Friday, that the
patriarch wears the ballin, never during the celebraMetropolitans and bishops howduring the mass, whenever they do not
wear the crown or mitre outside their own dioceses
tion of the mass.
ever wear
it
too,
and
prohibited.
cope
is
It
The amice
particular there is
ritual rivalled or
West.
as in every
reason to believe that the Coptic
in
in this
however, and
Yet
modern
alike,
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
121
Such an
Shanudah
name
in old
Cairo
is
perhaps
tailasan
is
found represented as a
of Canterbury.
St.
Thomas
22
[CH. iv.
not
till
at the
moment
of consecration.
sort of amice,
The
among
the
known
in the practice
attached to
it
where
rubrics
3
.
Warren's
Lit.
and
Kit. of Celtic
Denzinger,
Kit.
Ch.
Or. torn.
p. 113.
ii.
Id. p. 114.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
123
has
even
in all
if it
of our era,
we may
feel
from Renaudot
logists
Renaudot has
his own lips
above
out
of
been
refuted
already
Marriott rightly says there is no corresponding
vestment in- the Greek Church,' but quotes with
existence as an eastern vestment.
Even
jamais adopteV
'
unknown
the church
jecture
but
nated there,
make
think
the necessity
neck.
it is
Vest. Christ, p. 2
2 n.
Introcl. vol.
i.
p.
306.
124
[CH. iv.
name of
THE
GIRDLE.
Though
Arabic
distinction of dress
in
Church.
For, as in the
ministration of the Church the girdle is worn over
the alb or dalmatic, so in daily life at Cairo now it is
front.
so well founded in
how
1
it
fact,
is
recognition from
This word, zinnar,' and the two Coptic terms are obviously
from the Greek
alike derived
CH. iv.]
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
125
early
Christians,
like
the
Arab from
is
a better
illustra-
vestments than
all
the
is
are not
An
26
[CH. iv.
The
mentioned
which, whether
it
is
not a
mere loose
sash,
writer.
Nearly a
century later it is
found in the western catalogue of vestments given
by Rabanus Maurus and from that time forward
The girdle was often
allusions to it are frequent.
:
CH.IV.]
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
127
We
may
say,
girdle
is
universally-
THE
(Coptic ni uop^pion,
STOLE.
c.xop^ion
Arabic
can be called
in
shown
in the sequel.
Here I
the point in order to reserve
we
G. P. Badger,
The
vol.
i.
p.
225.
128
[CH. iv.
omit the
i.e. 'bishops.'
Doubtless
be rendered 'celebrants;' but it
fices,'
'pontifices' should
hard to see how
is
redeem the
Vansleb and
original statement from mere error.
Gabriel say nothing at all while Abu Saba notes
that the stole or kinrpa.yj\\iov is worn from the neck
by the priest,' an observation which is true as far
any
'
as
it
This
eccle-
siologists.
'
seem
called in Coptic
ujpA.piort.
While, however, the pall has also its own distinctive term, the two kinds of stole do not seem to be
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
pages
129
clearness,
name
to
epitra-
denote the
'
stole
down
From
embroiepitrachelion
dered either with gorgeous crosses, or with the
figures of the twelve apostles in six pairs, one pair
above another; and the dedicatory inscription is
Some idea of
often woven above this adornment.
is
wa Yuhanna.
Even now
the patrashil
is
often of
But
figures
or figures,
is
common
material.
it is
is
called
by a separate name
sudr.
VOL.
II.
Fig. 22.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
131
with an opening for the head. And the consciousness of this origin is still sometimes betrayed by
the arrangement of the embroidery
for the lines
down the centre of the vestment in the woodcut
:
division
is
it
rather
embroidered
it has
also a fringe which is
After the
not often found on the epitrachelion.
three
crosses
horizontal
lines
an
illustration 1
clear
Sampson and
'
capable of separation
1
and
in the
same
2
Ivi.
plate the
Id. pi.
Ivii,
132
[CH. iv.
'
'
'
only differ from the Coptic shape in actually retaining the seam, instead of merely indicating it by an
embroidered ornament.
this
in
some modern
speci-
Eastern Church
s. v.
Stole.
Gen. Introd.
vol.
i.
p.
308
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
is left
133
;
while in
entirely open.
rants,
epitrachelion
but
in the last
is
This theory
a
will,
much higher
and possibly
andria.
At
the
it
may
is
134
[CH. iv.
was given
Other communities
specially to priests.
which use this form of ornament, besides the Greeks,
are the Malabar 2 Christians the Armenians 3 among
,
whom
it
niscence of orarion
brocade of
called pour-ourar
is
silk
and
is
and possibly
the Maronites.
The orarion or common stole seems only distinguishable from the epitrachelion by a convention
for in the rubrics orarion is found even for the stole
as worn by the patriarch 4 which is undoubtedly the
The word 0-7-0X77 is of frequent occurrence
patrashll.
2.
Graeco- Coptic
in
pontificals,
but never
in the
sense
the
until
Christendom
ninth
century even
western
in
however,
1
2
Fortescue,
Armenian Church,
p. 133.
p. 133.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
the vestment or
of a
adoption
its
name was
135
originally Latin.
Roman vestment by
the
The
eastern
still
by
and
in
it
would of course be
It is
methods of wearing
The
136
for in the
Tukian
Pontifical there
[CH. iv.
a rubric direct-
is
at ordination.
3
Syrians, and even the reader among the Maronites,
at ordination receives the orarion.
In most of these
shoulder only,
in the manner prescribed for deacons
but in the
is
left
is
somewhat
different.
torn.
ii.
p. 6.
3
is
obscure.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.j
137
bestowed on this picture, the splendour of the vestments, and the universal recognition of St. Stephen as
a typical deacon, it is probable that this way of wearIt will, of
ing the orarion was habitual and lawful.
course, be noticed that the stole
is
really crossed
Fig. 23.
St.
Stephen
from a painting at
Abu
Sargah.
1
communicating, such as Goar tells us was usual in
the Greek Church for a Greek deacon, when about
;
it formed a
and back, and a sort of girdle
This custom of changing the
round the
orarion
waist.
may perhaps
of the
Coptic
stole
fashion
which
will
as
be
Euchologion,
p.
146
worn by subdeacons
described
presently.
Yet
138
[CH. \\.
represented as worn
in the ordinary way, merely placed upon the left
shoulder
St. Stephen himself, for instance, is deis
down
is
hand one end of the stole, which hangs over the left
shoulder before and behind while the archdeacon
wears it crossing the breast from the left shoulder
to the right side.
The choristers and subdeacons
of the Coptic Church at the present day wear the
;
in front
and
It
is
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
139
resemblance and
half in contrast, the stole as worn, not by deacons
but by priests, in our own Church before the
at the back,
and
recalls, half in
reformation.
depending, clear illustrations are somewhat uncommon. There is, however, a good brass in Horsham
1
Church, Sussex in which the crossed stole is visible
,
be seen also
in
our Fathers 3
the subject
is
Perhaps the
that issued
first
by
clear ordinance
on
should pass
it
crosswise
over the
breast.
2
3
iii.
p.
375.
See also
vol.
i.
p. 421.
140
now wear
the stole in this manner, but only subwhile the priests in ordi-
[CH.IV.
made
they are of
hues,
purple, yellow, red, and green,
usually having three or four colours side by side
in longitudinal bands
and they are adorned not
only with crosses but also with flowers finely em-
various
broidered.
Italy
Many
are
still
descriptions.
in
England,
p. 51.
Rcclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
141
'
stole
upon the
*.
left
'
accipit
doubtless as follows
the candidate for the priesthood being vested as deacon, with the orarion hanging loose over the left shoulder before and behind,
the bishop takes the end which hangs at the back,
is
and brings
When
both ends
So
it
round
the ac-tion
(traducit)
is
in front,
all
'
side
Florentine
miniatures of the
4
torn.
2
ii.
p. 70.
Lit.
Or. torn.
ii.
p.
ii.
54
p.
seq.
819.
142
[CH. iv.
always of
about
the
Renaudot says nothing
epitrachelion, for the use of which by the Syrians
there seems to be no evidence
and Neale is therefore wrong in identifying the uroro with the epitrachelion on Renaudot's authority
coloured crosses
is
The
is
worn
in
We
already noticed the survival of the term in pourourar, the Armenian designation of the epitrachelion
but there is no law or limit to the forms which
:
a classical word
language.
unlike the Greek, which is embroidered with the
trisagion or the word AT IOC thrice repeated.
The Nestorian clergy, both priests and deacons,
recognise precisely the same usage of the orarion as
whereas
in the
Nestorian ordination service for a deacon, the distwo orders is made by the removal
of the stole from around the neck of the subdeacon,
tinction of the
Eastern Church
Gen. Introd.
vol.
i.
p.
308.
The
demittitque super
humerum
ejus sinistrum.'
In the corresponding
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
Nestorian
the Syrian
143
wpdpiov.
THE
PALL.
Arabic
in
if
Nestorian
thus
'
rite,
as given
'
Orarium
'
sinistrum.'
1
i.
p. 225.
144
casula)
the
list
is
correct as far as
deficient.
obviously
1
According
to
it
the
[CH. iv.
goes but
Tukian
when
'
After the
of gladness/
Then came
more
eum omophorio (cujmocbopion) symboli 2 (cnrJUL&oXon)
'
'
'
they octur;
characters, I
Rcclesiastical Vestments.
OH. iv.]
humerum
(eni^xepi) super
marvellous as
this rubric,
'
the next
Et cum indutus
archisacerdotali
ems.'
it
145
quod
et epicheri
The language
seems,
is
est
of
surpassed by
omni habitu
est (cj>opeilt)
morphotacio
(cbeXomon) et pha(jULOp$oTLiaori)
cialio (4>.Ki.Xion) quod a capite eius dependet,
omophorio (uujULocbopion) i.e. morphorin
4>opm) habitus (CTOXH) et epicheri
super humerum eius,' &c. The absurdities of the
(^.p^xiep^TiKort)
et phelonio
out.
amice
the
ambon
removes
ture.
The
epicheri then
it is
Such an explanation
be more than a conjec-
would not be a regular vestment, correand worn by all orders nor would
sponding
even be part of the patriarch's pontifical apparel but merely a
special symbol worn but once on the occasion of his ordination.
:
it
The
It will
any
omophorion the same as the linteum but
the rubric so running refutes itself, for the pall would in no wise be
described as hanging down from the head.' Vide Rit. Or. torn. ii.
sense at
all,
makes
the
'
VOL.
II.
146
dalmatic,
stole
and chasuble
thirdly,
[CH. iv.
with
pall,
morphotacion,'
phacialion,' and
Truly a wonderful metamorphosis
'
uble,
cheri
it
'
'
epi-
pall,
'
patriarch presents,
when
at
last
and
the
which
figure
he is apparelled
:
in full pontificals.
mencement of the
dalmatic and
Xerrriort
by
Denzinger
the amice
service the
simpler, but
At the com-
patriarch wears
translates
Renaudot here
amice.
mantile,
renders
new
is
it,
instead
and
is
of
by linteum as
rightly thinking of
'
quaedam
amice and
language as
As
in usage.
Renaudot
is
robed
in
chasuble.
The
third
Renaudot.
places on him over his head the omophorion which
is the mark of his rank, and it shall hang in such a
way as to fall over the breast.' And instead of all
the barbarous jargon that ensues in the Tukian
:
Tom.
2
ii.
p. 40.
Tom.
i.
p. 130.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.j
Pontifical,
'
147
Then he
shall
There is
amice, stole, chasuble, pall, and mitre.
however reason to think that during the ceremony
of ordination some of the vestments are actually
removed and
Which of
replaced.
But
in the
From
this
analogy
we may,
I think,
conclude that
It is
The
is
a mere
original
^.p^iep^.TIKOIt, which elsewhere
the same author repeatedly renders, and rightly, by archiepiscopalis.
mistake.
is
L 2
148
are put on
[CH. iv.
service
account
l
.
Without attempting to settle decisively the meaning of morphofaa'on, phacialion and the like, which cannot be done without
reference to the text, I may call attention to the criticism of Den-
'
they are
a-n-^apiov
(Arabs: tunica
hoc
est
quae sunt presbyterorum vestes praeterea vero ex ordinationis textu Renaudotiano <ano$6piov quod est super caput et
pendet ita ut descendat super pectus ejus, ex textu autem Tukiano
:
</>mi>oXtoi',
fu>p<j)oTaKioi>, <f)(\ouot>,
hoc
est
quae
super
humerum
ejus.
homophorio
(paxtaXiov
quod
(sic), et
Epicherion
Phakialion absque dubio erit mitra,
in orationibus
pars quaedam.
quaedam
humeris
circumvoluta.'
Now
'
are
'
episcopus imponet
ei
homophorium (quod
tatis)
is
lowered
Rcclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
149
the shoulders,
saying that
his
it
words accurately,
it
manner
head, where
German has
a
more
still
But
very singular notions of ecclesiastical costume.
Two pages later
extraordinary statement remains.
'
corum $aoXioi/.' Now it is quite certain that QaKioXiov and $aKidXioi/ must be the same
and here we are told that the phaciathing
lion is no longer a mitre but a cope
But what authority is there
for the existence of a Greek vestment called <aicidXioi>
resembling
the Latin cope ?
I know of none.
The patriarch Germanus in
his account of the Greek vestments uses the word <f)aKi6\iov or
:
this
(fraicioXiov
with a cope.
The cope can hardly be said to exist in the Church
of Constantinople for the patriarch's pavftvas, which comes nearest
:
to
is
it,
Du
make
stole
show
a turban.
;
Hung
to orarion
is
'
might resemble a
it
Goar
as equivalent
cites
a definition
militum pileus,
pro*.
Ancient Coptic
150
omophorion as an
C/iuyc/ies.
[en. iv.
It is
inquam
prie
zona
capitis KaAurrrpa,
It is stated
named
craAa$a/a'oXo?
then probable, on the whole, that the phacialion, though not resembling in any way the Latin mitre, was some kind of eastern head-
possibly
bellin,
assigns to the patriarch only : but in the rubric for the ordination
of a bishop in the Tukian Pontifical, one of the priestly vestments
the
name
Xoviort
as
'a long
band of white
linen
wound
turban-wise
lexicons.
JULOp,
1
It
may
to bind,
it
and
signify a girdle.
Coptic
root
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
decidedly that
an
'
earlier time,
from the
down
to
fifth
century,
the present,
151
if
it
not from
has been
worn by
all
am
ballin
be so
re-
bishop or metropolitan
singular
were
pall
the
if
omission,
really the orna-
all
Patriarch
pictorial evidence to
with
omophorion
any other rank than
On the other hand, in the seal of the
patriarchal.
Alexandrian patriarchate, while the pontiff is shown
associate the
Yet
it
is
not at
all
Roman Church
in
the
'
omophorion
early
of the
fifth
century,
'
bishops
in
speaks of the
language which
152
[CH. \\.
previously,
The words
Theophilus of Alex-
Germanus in speaking of
vestments seem to denote
of St.
is
omophorion. There can be no question that originally this vestment consisted of a single long woollen
band or scarf, which hung in a loop over the breast
in front and over the shoulders behind, and showed
one end hanging in front over the left shoulder, and
one end hanging behind. This form remains with
scarcely any change to-day in the Church of Constantinople, although the pendant
down
now
falls in
front
it,
as
CH. iv.j
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
153
in ancient times.
Such variation from the primitive
form as has taken place may be readily seen by
comparing plates xli and Iviii in Marriott's Vestiarium Christianum
and it will be noticed at
once that the modern Greek form bears only a
distant resemblance to the modern Roman pall, and
this resemblance is merely accidental.
Any susin
of
Roman
influence
picion
determining the form
of the Egyptian omophorion is at once refuted by
the fact that the vestment as illustrated on the
patriarchal seal to-day is almost precisely the same
:
not Roman.
St.
Sophia.
1
pi.
Ixxv.
154
[CH. iv.
discovered at
Rome
shows
in
St.
pall,
which
is
the
same as
drawn up more
loop
all
Greek
miniatures.
But
this
may
How
easily
the
transition
was
effected
pi.
xxx, from
De
Rossi's
Roma
Sotter-
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
155
figure of
600 A.D.
of the
pall.
Thus
in
ninth-century
mosaic
at the Triclinium
Peter
is
still
Possibly however
the Byzantine character of the whole composition,
indicating the work of a Byzantine artist, may
.
contemporary
Roman
custom.
The
costume.
It
is,
however, remarkable
most ancient representation of the omophorion which I have found shows already a fixed
and conventionalised form of the vestment, nearly
that the
pi.
xxxix
Westwood, Miniatures,
50.
pi.
3
vol.
i.
pi. xvii.
156
[CH. iv.
The
resembling the Latin pallium of later usage.
nameless pillar-painting on which this omophorion
figured has escaped by some accident the destruction which has overtaken the like paintings on the
is
Al Mu'allakah. There is
no doubt that the nimbus, the mitre, and the pall
denote some patriarch, whose name has been effaced
or forgotten.
The pall is T-shaped and consists of
an unbroken band placed low across the shoulders,
with another band hanging from
the centre and concealing the clasp
other nave-columns at
of the girdle.
Curiously enough
there is no sign of any cross upon
rion
Fresco at Al
Mu'allakah.
Fig. 25.
of a
century
at
Cairo
inclined
to
refer
notwithstanding which I
the fresco to the eighth
am
or
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
157
In the
oft-mentioned picture of St. Nicholas *.
north part of the choir at Abu-'s-Sifain, in the picture
in the
rather
close
cross.
concealed
is
shorter
dalmatic.
appears,
it
is
not
Puzzling as
uncommon
this
arrangement
in
Coptic pictures;
though sometimes again, where alb and dalmatic
are both given, the epitrachelion is worn over the
See frontispiece.
Vol.
i.
p. 108,
158
[CH. iv.
latter,
Mariam.
The
Y-shaped pall was developed out of the early Greek form, seems proved
by the testimony of mediaeval Coptic monuments,
but the
and the process is easy to understand
same monuments prove no less clearly that the
then, that the
fact,
ancient
with
form
the
later
continued
wrist or
is
of St.
church of
Mark
the seventeenth-century
attired as patriarch at the
in
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
'59
it
will
passes across to
the right side, thence behind
the back, under the left arm,
across the breast to the right
Stephen,
it
passes
half
where
breast,
across
it
the
is
pinned
under the other cross-piece,
and thence the end or portion
way
Thus
it
recalls in
Fig. 26.
painting
curious variation.
These
phorion
omoBut
160
[CH. iv.
was developed from it, doubtless the process of development was chiefly a process of confusion confusion between the shamlah or priestly amice, the
orarion, the epitrachelion, and the omophorion, vestments whose points of difference were easily disregarded in the long darkness which has settled on
It must be owned with reluctthe Coptic Church.
ance that
much
of this confusion
is
likely to persist,
ot. A AI It
is not a
Coptic word by etymology, and is doubtfrom the Latin pallium through the Greek form TraXX/ov,
which occurs now and then in early Byzantine writers. Stephanus in
his Thesaurus (s. v. tmxapiov) says that Gregory of Nazianzen in his
will left toEvagrius the deacon Kapavov tv, (Tt\apu>v tv,ira\\ia 8vo: cf. also
Epiph. II. 1 88 B. The form naXXiv (or ? n-oXXtv) actually occurs in
In Byzantine Greek, however, the word merely means
Porphyrius.
less derived
ecclesiastical
meaning
some
the Latins,
By
was specialized
a precisely
sort of
which, as
among
ornament.
we
means
an
analogous change of
which meant
jcd/maoi/),
to denote
ritual
KJUl<LCIOIt,
sleeve or armlet.
So wide
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
161
Rome
of
which
carried.
it
is
not
di-
whether
enough
the use of the pall first arose in Rome or in Alexandria, yet the first undoubted mention of that
ornament is from the pen of an Egyptian writer. We
know' that in the sixth century, at least, it was custo solve the question
rect testimony
tomary
St.
Mark
new
for
All this
tells
Rome
II.
62
[CH. iv.
made
that he
is
Both
her
in the
Via Nomentana
Rome.
at
After
upon
apostle's festival,
St. Peter's
and on the
1
that our
own
that
'
it
i.
p.
I.
Gaume,
edition, p. 5.
vol. vii.
Ecclesiastical yestments.
CH. iv.]
163
THE ARMLETS.
KJUL.cioK
(Coptic ni
Arabic
in
'
'
'
'
is
is
is,
'
164
ICH. iv.
sciousness of
it,
Yet
fair to recall
it
is
only
its
origin.
Abu
On
appurtenance of worship.
painting of St. Stephen at Abu
of
existence
Thus
in
is pictorial evidence,
in character, proving
the
this
for the
eucharistic
Latin Church
See
illustration, p.
137 supra.
Ecclesiastical l/estments.
CH. iv. j
tained
its
original
165
little honoured or
regarded that the very fact of its
existence has required to be demonstrated. Granting,
however, the existence of this napkin, we must still
consider it as absolutely distinct from the sacerdotal
obviously
all
to the
arm by
strings or buttons.
Goar
distinctly
priests use silken strings to
tighten the epimanikia on their arms, and his statement seems to bear out the inference suggested by
Greek
when unfastened
Ivi.
Euehologion, p.
in.
66
[CH. iv.
subject,
'
'
Here again
surplice.'
in the language.
is
of an alb or dalmatic
is
as resembling
of a surplice,
tight-fitting sleeve
But whatever be
meant.
the right reading, we are still left in the dark as regards the length of the sleeve, whether it covers the
tightened,
1
by
silken strings.
vol.
i.
p.
307.
CH. iv.]
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
167
Abu
Virgin
Fig. 27.
68
[CH. iv.
The
open
in
with strings.
The
ical
Coptic sleeves, though still part of the canondress of priests, bishop, and patriarch, at the
Abu
Kir wa
Yuhanna in Old Cairo, and date probably from the
Modern examples likewise are
sixteenth century.
often of crimson velvet, covered with gold or silver
embroidery, in which designs of flowers and the sixwinged seraphim are the most usual ornaments.
still
at the church of
The patriarch
origin or purpose of the epimanikia.
them
as
symbolical of the divine
Symeon describes
'
'
CM. iv.]
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
169
rendered
still
bishops, as stated
2
3
by Neale and Marriott though
,
no doubt
it
is
is
It
i.
p.
70
[CH. iv.
same
in the
tells
'
nothing
in
common
Hence
it
but there
is
nothing to
Equally
3
,
who
in
'
and bishops.
1
2
3
Fortescue,
Armenian Church,
ii.
i.
p. 55.
p. 132.
p. 133.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. iv.]
Coming now
71
Christendom, Rock
hazards a conjecture that sleeves or armlets were
to
western
Church of
be a mere
Britain.
among
the
ecclesiastical
vestments
in
the
sixth
century
according to the explicit evidence cited
Warren
manualia vero, id est manicas,
Mr.
by
,
'
sacerdotibus induere
regum
vel
mos
sacerdotum
This testimony
is
brachia
quas
constringebantur.'
extremely interesting as
pre-
now
forgotten ornament
once adopted by the early Church of Gaul. Whether
these armlets were subsequently disused from mere
indifference, or were actively discountenanced by
Roman missionaries, cannot now be determined.
But no one, I imagine, will venture to maintain that
the eastern armlet was derived from Gallic example
in the far West.
Unless, therefore, we take refuge
serving the
record of a
and
If this
deliberately adopted by the Gallic clergy.
idea of eastern influence be correct, it is not merely
1
2
3
note
3.
p. 117.
172
curious
of the
is
CHAPTER
V.
Phelonion.
Cross.
Sandals.
THE PHELONION
(Coptic ni cfceAomon,
OR SUPERVESTMENT.
KOTKXiort, ni
jui$opiort
Arabic
iHILE
it is
above for
the Coptic ministerial dress we may gather the following statements about the supervestment. Abu
Dakn,
if
it
as
'
pallium
even
but
by
priest
deacon or subdeacon at the korban, when no bishop
is celebrating.
Vansleb, writing towards the end of
cum
cucullo,'
is
priests is
hooded.
He
174
[CH. v.
'
sive alba.'
Finally,
by al burnus
is
Gabriel's Ritual.
So much
which
'
'
'
'
'
KJUl.CIort
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
is
175
wrongly rendered
'
by Renaudot yet the confusion may be pardoned if KJUL<Lcion is really the Coptic term for
chasuble, as the word bears so close a resemblance
'
alb
both
Gabriel
authority,
if
and
Abu Sabd
only their
and
It may
posing a treatise on ecclesiastical matters.
be taken for granted, therefore, that their testimony
will agree exactly with that of the other Coptic
'
'
'
'
'
2
ii.
76
[CH. v.
But
that of Egypt.
with which the
lium album
if
new bishop
'
'
'
be really a chasuble,
cappa alba
then it is easy to understand how, after the completion of the ceremony of ordination, the bishop
is finally arrayed in a dark-coloured cope (nigra) for
or
'
in
For
in
his
work
called
'
'
'
'
Church.
Indeed
1
2
Renaudot,
i.
p.
396.
ii,
p. 49.
a few pages
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
77
same
service \ the Coptic term corresponds exactly with the Greek 4>eXonion.
find, then, that, in the only cases where our authori-.
later
in the
We
This conclusion
is
unmis-
siderably earlier picture of St. Nicholas in my possession represents the outer robe as a very full
2
The arms raised one in the
flowing garment
.
which
is
doubtless the
'
however
according to Abu
priests at Cairo in
that,
monks and
'1
Birkat,
the
both
fourteenth
Macarius
in
At
convent, there
1
2
VOL.
II.
may
still
it
only
78
the
little
church dedicated to
St.
[CH. v.
fastened
by a
fine
morse.
Michael
is a picture of St.
Mercurius, which shows a bishop wearing chasuble
and Greek-like omophorion
and in the village
:
church at Tris
St.
In
many
a hood
is
it
may be remarked,
is
characteristic of
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
179
in
Sampson
illustration
Marriott.
adopted by
western usage a distinction arose, when the vestment came to be cut away over the arms for the
sake of greater lightness and freedom of movement.
For while
in
the
West
the chasuble
became
in
the large
flowing chasuble
in
the fresco of
picture
gone
xliii
and
xliv.
i8o
tiate
it
[CH. v.
For
it
ministerial
if
Abu
there are
Upper Egypt.
It
is
now
discussion
solve
can
it.
more
now
bring face to face two apparently contradictory conclusions each supported by unmistakeable
evidence. On the one hand, we find the ancient rubrics
alike
bearing witness
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
181
far back at least as the seventeenth century agreeing that the supervestment is a
And pictorial evidence
cope, and not a chasuble.
It is
impossible
and I
chasuble has now practically disappeared
have no doubt that the explanation of the whole
matter is to be found in the gradual transformation
:
suffered
by the chasuble.
From
the
first it
retained
was
entirely severed
by a vertical
and the vestment was absoThis explanation
lutely assimilated to the cope.
moreover it is
seems to remove all difficulties
For an
supported by the strongest analogies.
exactly similar process of transformation may be
traced in the history of the Greek chasuble or
phenolion, although the process has been arrested
venience' sake
division
down
it
the front
vestment, and
still
Architecture,
p.
116, note n.
82
[CH. v.
As
quite unaltered.
it
is
custom
the
chiefly
On
is
in the
form of the
this
'
doned by the
the breast, the mutilation which the oriental phenolion has undergone is confined to the front of the
vestment.'
in writers
'
'
'
'
end of the
at the
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
183
the
retain
ancient
it
slit
down
is
184
[CH. v.
It
in
may
any
English eyes
in
many
ancient brasses
and monuments.
any shadow of doubt
resting on the
history of the Coptic supervestment, as here given, it
will, I think, be dispelled by a consideration of the
If there
is
still
1
according to Denzinger shoochar according to For2
tescue while Neale alleges that they have retained
the name phenolion*, after changing the vestment.
,
Neale
cites
no authority
very interesting
that the Greek
if
true
but of course
name may
linger
on
it
which
is
is
possible
in the rubrics
or in ecclesiastical treatises, though lost to the verHe adds that the chasuble had been abannacular.
*
i.
p. 133.
Eastern Church
Gen.
Armenian Church,
Introd., vol.
i.
p.
309.
p. 134.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
185
who comments
severely on the
fact in his work upon the errors of the Armenians.
This would be in the twelfth century but Neale
Katholikos
Isaac,
seems
to
referred
to,
'
'
word by 'amictus'
in his Latin
translation
2
.
The
mean
and renders
it
L.
c.
Renaudot,
ii.
p. 55.
etc.
ed.
Guido
86
[CH. v.
purple
but there
is
in
three examples,
also a miniature in
broidery of
ancient Syriac
Eusebius
is
is
represented
A.D.,
the figure of
draped in a
in a miniature as
name
faithfully.
i.
The
p. 131, and torn. ii. p. 73 n.
very difficult to follow as it speaks of a pallio
seu casula,' used instead of the dalmatic, and distinguishes this
'
note, however,
from
is
'
phaino, h. e. penula,
pluvialis Latinorum.'
quae
est
phenolium .... ad
instar
CH. v.]
Ecclesiastical Vestments,
187
is
same name
for the
vestment
Asseman
phaino obtained in their pontificals.
indeed alleges that this phaino is like the maaphra or phakila of the Nestorians, in other words
is a cope and not a chasuble
but it is extremely
if
even
the
character
of the vestment
that,
probable
had been thus entirely changed by the seventeenth
century, the original or at least the modified Roman
form of the chasuble has been restored by subse1
i.
Hi. pt. 2. p.
68 1
Rome, 1728.
p. 132.
In the passage just cited he says that the priest wears dalmatic,
shoulders, a 'pallium' (whatever that means)
called gulta, and over the orarion a phelonion or cope (ptuvi'ati)
orarion over both
instead of a chasuble.
wear
in
common
'
(velum).
I have elsewhere pointed out the absurdity of
comparing with the
imaginary Greek vestment (f>aKi6\iov our cope or any other western
88
whom
Asseman however
understanding.
[CH. v.
vestment.
is
really responsible
Now
there
said at the
to
for
this
blunder:
but
fallacy.
is
moment of
'
for a patriarch
is
as follows
'
:
Tune
afferunt
Kaphilam
et princeps
We
'
and
another rubric
lows,
may be
the chasuble
The
the garment of celestial glory,' and the prayer continues
Lord arm thee with the mystical armour of the spirit, adorn thee
'
'
with the works of righteousness, and enrich thee with the gift of
that without spot or blemish thou mayest feed the sheep
chastity
entrusted unto thee in the fear of God and in all holiness, now and
:
alway.'
vestment
at the
now
to Denzinger's statement
or gul/a,
we may,
I think, explain
it
nothing but the dalmatic ; and because Dr. Badger, being igno'
rant of the right term, uses a wrong one, surplice,' in English,
this
out
of
manufactures
an
Denzinger
entirely new vestment for
is
the Nestorians.
This
of torn.
i.
p. 132,
will
et
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
189
'
ment
.'
to be worth quoting.
'
'
'
'
'
'
orarium induitur
p.
(sc.
'
'
the bishop lays on the left shoulder of the priest at the very begin'
ning of the ordination service, Anglice est Surplice. Posuimus
Now
induitur.'
come over
the orarion.
is this,
biguously
over the orarion.
that
it is
What
first
it
'
This proves
the 'pallium' or gulta first, and that the orarion was then placed
over the 'pallium ;' in other words, that the 'pallium and dalmatic
or sticharion are identical.
'
Bibl. Or.,
The
1852.
1.
c.
vol.
i.
pp. 225-6
London,
190
[CH. v.
'a plain square cloth with a cross inscribed (? embroidered) in the centre, which is thrown over the
'
'
'
to call a
'
'
a chasuble
but the
may
'
'
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
191
while priests
shoulders
over
both
falling
at
celebration
moreover,
the priest has also a chadra (i. e. tent), a large square
of white linen with coloured crosses at the upper
This chadra is thrown over the shoulders
angles.
'
and held
in front
by one hand
at certain places in
raised so as to cover the head, at
others stretched out so as to form a screen between
the service
it
is
and people.' The chadra is obviously identiwith Dr. Badger's shoshippa or chasuble but is
neither cope nor chasuble, but a nameless vestment peculiar to the Nestorians.
But Mr. Cutts
priest
cal
oriental
Church
still
remains
the ancient
patriarchal phenolion or phelonion, as they by preference call it, reaches nearly to the ground both
92
[CH. v.
and
chasuble
The
still
among
the most
more or
ronite, the
originally deemed
by the canons
have mutilated it, and the Armenians, who have abandoned it. On the contrary, the disuse of the chasuble
Ecclesiastical Vestments;
CH. v.]
193
one of the most marked and most universal departures from primitive custom among all the liturgical
changes in the East. We have seen that it had a
long canonical existence, an existence indeed never
and its origin is lost in the
formally terminated,
is
dawn of
Christian ceremonial.
was eminently
oriental.
chasuble appears as
In Greek the
for the
name
&c.
made
overall
body. It is,
the question raised by Cardinal Bona and others,
whether the (j>ai\6vri$ left by St. Paul at Troas was
a eucharistic chasuble.
The
idea
is
a mere ana-
chronism
for
ecclesiastical
II.
194
the figures
[CH. v.
bable that
all
'
Sacerdos vocari
sive presbyter,' says Ra-
lower orders.
'
opinion.
they seem to
details in the
of
The
ritual.
the four
CH..V.]
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
195
of Egypt.
If then the ritual was so far developed,
when these mosaics were designed, is it not reasonable to conclude that the dress of the priesthood
was specialised, and distinguished from the dress
also
of
common
life ?
artist
seems to me
was inaccurate
It
easier to believe
in certain details
no doubt
which could be used in the Latin service, and not
mere curiosities. This is one more proof of the fact,
which becomes clearer and clearer as we penetrate
deeper into the past, that Roman and Greek vestments were originally the same, or rather that the
vestments, like the ritual and the language of divine
worship at Rome, were adopted from eastern originals.
As regards the colour of the Greek ministering dress,
Goar remarks that red or purple vestments are used
well as a seamless white sticharion,
Euchol.
p. 113.
gifts
196
[CH. v.
As
The
prevailed as to extinguish the older planeta.
transition from the secular to the ecclesiastical garment seems slow and hard to mark but it is not
;
in Italy
both
vol.
i.
427.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
197
Rome
common
use
among
the
given to the
astical
worn
it
may
is artistic
evidence that
on which
France
rich in sculptured evidence
depicted
for the chasuble of the same epoch
for almost
is
the
every plaque
ivory covers of the Sacramentary of Drogon has one or more examples of
in
p. 1
1 2.
Irish
MS.,
pi.
li.
igS
[CH. v.
chasuble
but the
is
established, in the eighth -century Pontifical of EcgIt is curious to find, in confirmation of the
bert.
its
hood
tine
Greek
KovKovXXiov,
of Pachomius,
ultimately traceable
to
the
Latin
cucullus.
The
the
still
tomb of
upon
it
the
St.
Others
earliest English example of the chasuble.
are contained in the Benedictional of St. Ethelwold
the miniatures of which display several
2
and in the somewhat later
fully vested figures
of
the
pontifical
Anglo-Saxon Church, now in the
(c.
970
A. D.),
Rouen
Library,
there
is
pi. Ixvi.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
199
a chasuble which, like that of St. Sextus, is considerably shorter in front than behind. Another bishop in
and
the same pontifical is represented in a cope
this is the earliest instance known to Bloxam of
;
hundred years
earlier
lines
not so distinctly shown, owing to the sideward position and the uplifted arms of the celebrant.
suffered
great diminution, as
On
is
See
La Messe,
vol.
i.
pi.
iii.
and
pi.
ii.
2OO
down
[CH. v.
and even at the present day the Roman rubrics require the full flowing
chasuble. There are also in our own churches many
to the year
1600
A. D.
The
were employed,
and
cloth
of
silk, velvet,
gold and these
were embroidered with beautiful orfreys, sometimes
having costly jewels inwoven, or even covered entirely with flowers and other designs in the finest
No pains or cost were thought too
needlework.
the apparel used at the service of
to
adorn
great
our altars, and our churches were unrivalled in the
splendour and number of their vestments, as many
colours.
such as
records
still
remaining
testify.
THE CROWN OR
(Coptic -f JULHTp^.
2
,
MITRE.
ni KX^JUI, ni
Arabic
in
1
8
3
ii.
p.
117
n.
48.
If (TKfinrpov is the
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
insignia
and
in
201
is
or, if
innovation from
its
unorthodox
rival
half of the
There
is
fifth
modern
Goar, Euchol.,
p.
314.
2O2
[CH. v.
among
members of
the
We
the patri-
869
A. D.
The
mitre.
may however be
fact
accounted for
by the
patriarch.
torn.
ii.
cites
'
de quo
agilur
(sc.
mitre?) est
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.j
203
mensame
'
'
as the Arabic
ments.
tag
Asseman
')
is
is
are simply
unknown
such scanty
relics as
the panels
saints
in
whose
upon
'
meant an
is
is
sufficiently
is
no
is
conflict
among
our authorities.
I think,
head, which
is
thrown
off at the
(Chris-
tians
with the Coptic ballin, and is the common vestment of the patriarch,
whereas the mitre is only used on great festivals. It is a mistake
into
which a
traveller
such an ornament.
wears the crown to celebrate, and in all the scores of visits that
I have paid to various churches I have only seen one example of
any
mitre.
Yet beyond
all
shadow of doubt
the mitre
is
worn, not
2O4
[CH. v.
pall,
jewelled diadem.
silver or gold divided into tiny compartments, each
enclosing a precious stone something like the dia-
dem on
S. Vitale,
that, if this
monument stood
quite alone,
it
would
Between
from the
fresco
fifteenth
the head
times.
is
quite
See
illustrations, vol.
i.
p.
ii.
p. 156.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. V.]
The Copts
in fact
do
205
'
crown
Fig.' 28.
Nor
it
The Crown
diocese,
or
206
[CH. v.
it
was made,
to
work
and chased with rude engravings of the Virgin and
alternately filled with a spiral design of filigree
crown
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
207
pontiff.
The
but dissents
in
mitre
is
cross.
Each of the
a royal crown
teristics of
more
silver gilt,
with jewels.
The
mitra,
though of metal,
is
never of
the
The
same
Museum.
the ground
is
2o8
[CH. v.
The
oldest there
enclosing an exquisite
design of small flowers repousse\ Immediately above
this is another zone of the richest blue enamel, in
which is wrought some sacred writing in Greek
characters.
Above this comes a third narrow band
of delicate work, raised, and standing out from the
ground and all the points and angles of the design
the
bottom runs a
circlet
The globe
enclosed are set with lustrous jewels.
or main body of the crown is marked off into four
equal compartments by vertical bands descending
from a circlet near the top. These bands are of
open
silver
third of the
Rcclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
209
mounted by a
cross,
which
is
a characteristic feature
when
matter
is
'
'
Denzinger gives
his full
name
as
'
'
Echmimensis.'
Ferge Allah Echmimi,' which
II.
2io
[CH. v.
Such a
understanding of the epomis, or amice
confusion is extremely improbable, for the same
authority mentions the amice in his list as a separate
1
When
dumb on
all
known
au-
the subject,
within
silver
the
vertical
compartments by
compartment
each
with
smaller
starlike
is
is
bands of lace
cross
crosses
cross
very
of
of
solid
between
silver
all
lace
similar cap
of
'
i.
p. 130.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
211
'
the
in
AJB
Fig. 29.
Priestly Cap.
is
'
splendour
'
argument
There
a brass in
is
Monumental
P 2
212
[CH. v.
in the history
the mere existence of the cap as a present appurtenance of worship were the sole fact known about it,
while pictures and books of the past were silent
then the critic would conclude with a great show of
;
no authority.
Thus
in either alternative,
and
however
would be wrong
'
'
bilae
which
'
Maznaphtho or amice by
cidaris.
states
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.j
213
there be not sufficient evidence to prove conclusively the use of the mitre by Syrian bishops, there
if
is no
question that the tiara is worn by the patriarch,
both Jacobite and Maronite and this fact creates a
strong presumption that the privilege of wearing a
crown was granted to bishops also, a presumption
which is rendered almost certain by the identity of
the Syriac togo, as given by Renaudot, with the
Arabic tag, the name for the episcopal crown in
;
uniti
'.
Thus we
read,
thai Syrian bishops, except the Maronites, do not use mitre or ring.
Then follows immediately the list of the Syrian patriarch's pon-
word for word Apud Syros MaroJacoUtas patriarcha insignitur Masnaphta (sic) seu amictu
simili Birunae Nestorianorum, Phaina seu Phainolio, orario seu
tifical
nitas et
epitrachelio pontificio
ad
seu mitra, et baculo pastorali : and in the same page the Biruna is
denned as cidaris phrygio opere ornata instar amictus, and the
cidaris
i.
p.
132.
right of the
same confusion
as
214
'episcopi
birunam
ordinati
et tradit
[CH. v.
birunis et baculis':
virgam
in
manum
'
induit
eius dexteram':
'
tropolitarum
eum
induit
biruna, et tradit
illi
.'
These passages cannot, of course, prove
the usage of what we call a mitre, but they do prove
the usage of some closely corresponding ornament.
baculum
Among
the
is
have
said to
been
first
latter
usage
in
among
all
But
mitre in the
of the
priest's cap,
i.
priests
Hymn
torn.
ii.
'
sagavard.'
p. 133.
'
i.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
215
As
the absence of the cross on the top, it bears considerable likeness to the crown of the orthodox Alexan-
'
to the West,
we
shall find
closest
'
earliest times
vol.
ii.
p. 62.
p.
from which
3
vol.
ii.
p.
91
216
prelates
hung
Cottonian
shown
is
it
was
tied with a
The
behind.
MS.
fillet,
Dunstan
figure of St.
[CH. v.
in
the
less
rather a
priestly
dignity.
sculptured figure over the portal of
St. Denys of the same epoch shows a low but
decided mitre 3 having already indications of the
and in a
horns, which started about that time
at
Mark
in
a premosaic
St.
Venice
contemporary
,
is
depicted.
From
the twelfth
2
4
Westwood,
xii.
brass
is
later
we
Id. ib.,-pl.
xiii,
xiv.
that of
Archbishop Ysowilpe, in
the church of St. Andrew, at Verden, near Bremen, who died 1231.
He wears a low flat mitre, yet with two decided peaks. Next in
date comes the brass of Bishop Otto, of Hildesheim (1271), in
which the mitre is slightly higher, but the peaks still are wide
About a century
and nearly meeting, as at
apart.
present.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
THE
it
217
was worn
1
(Coptic ni cy&urr
The
when
that
diocese
is
bishop
may
This again
is
The
it
corresponds to B3K>.
is sometimes, but wrongly, limited to
opposed
218
[CH. v.
at the natural
made
The
it.
veil is
of
'
I shall
i.
p.
its
broader sense.
Pastoral Staff.
s. v.
314.
Euchol., p. 115.
Ib.. p.
"'
314.
Ib., p.
313.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.j
219
The
church ceremonial.
is
Coptic form agrees with the Greek in the characterdesign of the serpents' heads, the little cross
istic
find
no mention
in
is
the
veil,
peculiarity.
of which
can
is,
in height.
rare that
22O
[CH. v.
and
above standing on a
crown
little
Though
it
is not likely
amples
that any of them go back more
ancient,
1
.
There
is,
Fig. 30.
Coptic Crozier.
It
early days of Christianity.
2
has already
that
J been sup-crested
but this
221
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
of classical times.
crozier
may
or
o-KfjTTTpov
Similarly,
of
caduceus
Hermes, the
of
See Adam's
220, pi.
Dr. Smith
is
wrong
of the snakes to
of
art the
Roman
and Smith's
ii;
p.
late
works of
art.
His words
'
are,
In
late
works
were
staff
changed into two serpents' (p. 313). Now in the very earliest
works of art the wand appears with a head in the form of the figure $,
which may or may not be intended for the pair of snakes, but canThis form, for example, is
not possibly be meant for ribbons.
it occurs also on a
on
coins
of
sixth
the
century B.C.
frequent
:
which cannot be
iv. liv.)
here
it
is
later
carried
than 500
by
Iris,
(see Monumenti
Hermes carries a
B. c.
while
Inediti,
staff
of
doubt that
Christians.
its
222
is
obviously
in
[CH. v.
Hermes
the
staff in
of
left
the
always deWhat
hand.
is
two
serpents
is
wand was
carried
virtue of their
where the
figure.
other.
Hyginus says the- serpents were regarded as an emblem of
peace, because Mercury once found two serpents fighting and
Macrobius derives the symbolism
separated them with his staff.
'
On Thuc.
o<ptis Trfpiircrr\(yfi(vovs
(latdafft
Roman
<pfi>fiv
ol
<OTI
53 n^ntaaat
KTjpvKts
pfT
avruiv.
Thus
cristatos esse
in caduceo
mos
es/.'
fin.)
Of
course
it
is
associated with
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
223
;'
at least not
is
it
peace,
of the gospel message.
in church ceremonial
it is found, for instance, in
an Anglo-Saxon ritual, and was retained, even in
For on
England, up to the sixteenth century
Good
and
Easter
Eve,
Maundy Thursday,
Friday,
;
adopted as
religious
Egypt.
note
Lit.
'
Warren's work.
2
Vol.
i.
p. 59.
224
[CH. v.
Thus St.
with a very clear impression.
Ambrose distinctly says, The brazen serpent is a
figure of the cross, and a fitting symbol of the body
to coin
it
'
of Christ;' and even Tertullian admits its approBut, granting both the existence and
priateness.
the fitness of the
not see
office.
is its
It
emblem
in itself,
so obviously sacred a
symbol.
Yet a third interpretation remains in the case of
the Coptic crozier as faintly possible but extremely
It is just conceivable that the idea
improbable.
is
in
On
the
There
its
ing stick.
account for
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.j
225
by the
'
ecclesi-
every layman.
It is curious that
known Coptic
tion
book
is
a more
common ornament
in
in the
that
form of the
when
The same
letter T.'
the patriarch
author
tells
us
fully
'
altar
the
1
manner alleged.
St.
Michael
vol.
tury
ii.
till
ir.
sometimes painted
Rock says
p. 184, note 22.
the middle of the twelfth cen-
VOL.
is
all
French.
226
[CH. v.
Abu Sargah
As
regards the other eastern Churches, the invesis a matter of some cere-
it is delivered
the Syrian Jacobites
with
the words,
the
service,
bishop during
mony among
to the
'
The Lord
accomplished
Among
is
allowed to
'
peri-
4
bishops and patriarch
words and the ceremonies used at the delivery
odeutae 3
The
of the
,'
as
well
as
to
staff, in
the same
ii.
p.
1566.
pp. 75-77.
Ecclesiastical Vestments,
CH. v.]
227
is mentioned
along with ring and pall in the
eleventh century
For the Nestorian staff I have already cited suffi-
crozier
cient evidence.
grants the
words
which make it symbolical of the power of rescuing
sinners from the snares of the Evil One, and turning
them to repentance again with words which emand thirdly, with
phasise the duty of preaching
words which recall the pastor's office of comforting
the mournful and afflicted.
In the same service it is
staff to
called the
'
priestly
staff,'
'
govern and feed those that obey in the law and teach-
God
ing of
always
3
.'
The
seems
staff
Urfa there
at
228
style of design
'
(sic),
[CH.
\.
And there
point to already long established usage.
no doubt that in the Celtic and British Churches
is
the staff goes back to the very beginning of ceremonial worship. The Latinised Saxon or Celtic
name
sometimes cambo:
it is found for
example in the Gregorian Sacramennow
in
the
tary,
library of the college at Autun, and
in the Ecgbert Pontifical.
Tradition tells of a golden
staff adorned with gems as borne by St. Patrick
and two of his followers, St. Dagaeus and St. Asic,
as well as St. Columba, are said to have been very
skilful makers of the staff in precious metals 4
The
staff covered with plates of
and
enriched
with
gold
:
P- 1334
Warren,
Lit.
and
Kit.
says,
vol.
i.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
229
Columba
re-
The
crook.
marked than
Originally it seems
like a sceptre than a
less
strongly
museum
it is
'
in the
ruins of
which
by
Aghadoc
is
was of
gilt
lacertine monsters.
It is easy to trace the development of the staff
from the simple crook, which is illustrated, for
instance, in an illuminated eleventh-century MS. in
La Messe,
vol.
i.
pi. 10.
230
[CH. v.
The
and grotesques
and it is possible
that the frequent use of the serpent was due to con-
thirteenth century
were worked
in
Finally, figures
with elaborate
skill
seem
to
window containing an
figure of the last Abbot of Osney.
generally of Greek or nearly Greek form,
A
is
is
cross,
characteristic of an archbishop as
opposed to a
in the West.
An early instance is furnished
the fresco at S. Clemente referred to above,
bishop
by
where both the crook-headed and the cross-headed
forms of the crozier may be seen together and for
;
illustration
Monumental
Brasses.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.j
231
the doubtful evidence of Vansleb, there is no analogy in Coptic usage for the cruciform staff of the
archbishop or patriarch.
Of the
it is
Priests,
relics, I
at the
St.
Nicholas
is tyKoXiriov.
records
the
St.
Gregory
Canterbury
is
as
among
West we read
In
use
it
J
,
and
in
the
bishop's insignia.
of a silver cross worn by
St.
England by
Elphege of
enjoined as obligatory.
five centuries
relics at
Aidan's cross
St.
Durham
its
in the fourteenth
vol.
ii.
p.
176.
232
l
century
No
doubt
in
many
cases,
[CH. v.
and
more
Fig. 31.
faith,
talisman or amulet.
Warren,
Lit.
and
Church,
p.
5.
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
233
simplicity,
ecclesiastical
ornaments.
It is
a rule that
all
who
enter the haikal put off their shoes at the door, and
this applies even to the celebrant.
Renaudot * questions the statement of Severus, bishop of Ashmunain,
supported as
is
it
altar
barefoot,
while the
be recognised
Churches.
It
is not
surprising that the episcopal gloves, which do
not appear in the West till the twelfth century,
should be unknown among eastern ecclesiastical
1
ii.
p. 54.
234
But the
vestments.
in
[CH. v.
%K,I
Fig. 32.
may
fitly
be
Head
Patriarch, bishops,
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
235
The
and
will
gonation,
vestment.
only to deny
its
epi-
existence as a Coptic
in
new
but
in
and even
at the
monastery of
St.
Macarius
in
I have
and
and
never
closely questioned priests
laymen,
found a single Copt who knew even the name of the
When
pointed
it
out,
it
much
less its
meaning.
236
denying that
it
its
was
presence, but
an
all
ecclesiastical
[CH. v.
agreed in
vestment.
Similarly the rubrics are entirely silent on the subnor is there one particle of literary evidence
ject
;
show
to
epigonation.
late
were
the
that
The
the Greeks.
show
work of Greek and not of Coptic artists. The
Copts of to-day and the Copts of a hundred years
ago alike have been too inartistic to paint their own
pictures, and too ignorant or too careless to check
the painters whom they hired.
The Greek artists
have naturally followed Greek tradition, and have
that
will
Moreover,
it
is
specially easy to
understand
how
to discover
in
their
it,
but saw
it
and
still
see
it continually
The
churches.
epigonation, of course, in its present stiff lozengelike form, dates only from mediaeval times
and
:
Ecclesiastical Vestments.
CH. v.]
237
Thus
and the Copts firmly rejected it until by the negligence of these latter times it has seemed, and seemed
For, though all the
falsely, to creep in unawares.
in
pictures
Egypt were to bear witness in its favour,
the custom of the Coptic Church and her canons
alike disown it altogether.
;
may be pardoned
The best
them \
One has a
years old and all are lozenge-shaped.
is delicately
of
crimson
and
velvet,
ground
wrought
;
over
in
edges
gold embroidery.
is
with
the
described cut-
which are
The
four
filled
circle
evangelistic symbols.
or rather circular zone, about two inches broad,
decked with fourteen medallions, of which the
itself
is
lowermost a
Within
prophet, and the others each an apostle.
this zone the Resurrection is depicted forming the
main design. Every medallion and every outline is
Another example
marked out with tiny pearls.
bears date 1673 A.D., and, like the last, has a circle
topmost contains
the
Trinity,
the
The
spandrels are
It is also
The
descriptions
238
filled
with scroll-work
the circle
is
is
Angels above
in
'
'
some
like prayer
is
'
There
rosary at his girdle in Coptic paintings.
is even some reason to
that
the
suppose
rosary
was worn in the East before the Christian era.
CHAPTER
Books, Language,
VI.
and Literature of
the Copts.
BOOKS.
Id, p. 116.
Id,
p. 123.
Id., p.
132.
240
[CH.
M.
by the Mamelukes.
pillaged
lonely mountains
in
Red
1
Sea, the monasteries of Antonios and Bolos
once contained libraries, so rich in ancient treasures
is little
less deplorable
and after
against their masters and slew them
of
dull
life
so
far
out
of
the
a
world,
awhile, tiring
abandoned the place altogether. For eighty years
;
burning
fatal ignorance,
were
dashed
are
still
Antonios
in
returning
here.
p. 129.
may very
well have
CH. vr.]
241
ous pilgrimage.
doubting the accuracy of this rumour.
Very few of the remaining MSS. are on vellum,
or go back beyond the sixteenth century. The paper
employed is cotton paper or carta bombycina, as it
is technically called, a beautiful vellum-like material
of great antiquity.
sixth-century MS. on this
in
museum
exists
the
of the Collegio Romano
paper
Rome
his possession
been
in
Black
in Coptic.
for
red
the
freely,
242
[CH. vi.
remarks are well worth reading. It may be admitted at once that for, the most part these illuminations are, though well designed, rather rude in
execution, and will not bear comparison with the
finest miniatures of the West.
Still they deserve
more notice than they have received, being often
extremely curious and original. The following
account of a MS. perhaps of the fourteenth century brought by the writer from Egypt, and now
in the Bodleian Library, may serve to give some
idea of Coptic miniature painting in general, though
unfortunately the book is not in good condition, and
many
wingless,
CM. vi.]
243
plucking at their
own
breast,
for pelicans,
No
there
is
far
may be
many forms
of the acanthus.
Interlacing
work
is
employed chiefly for elaborate borders at the beginning of a prayer or lection, and for large crosses at
R
244
the end.
usually
[CH. vi.
made up of concen-
1
squares or oblongs in order round the page or
of ribbons in long parallels with plaited knots at
3
intervals-', or of small crosses in twisted bands
tric
quatrefoil
is
at the
At the right
beginning of our Lord's genealogy
side medallions filled with acanthus are enclosed by
bands of interlaced ribbons. The ribbon-work on
the left side is in gold the medallions on the right
have a blue ground with gold designs. The oblong
space across the top is surrounded with a blue and
6
al Khalili.
Nor
is it
at all
uncommon
in the minia-
Thus it occurs in an
ture painting of the West.
early form in the Latin Gospels at Trinity College,
1
Bodleian MS.,
Id., p. 42.
p. 29.
E.g.
id., p.
145.
Id., p.
6
Id., p. 41.
107.
Id., p. 164.
Language and
CH. vi.]
Literature.
245
1
Cambridge, dated the end of the tenth century
and it is frequent in a more conventionalised form
in the eleventh century, for example in the Arundel
;
Psalter 2
would be very
more
link of
Ireland.
MSS.
of lacertine animals
'
the Copts.
1
The
Irish
Ornaments,
pi. 42.
2
of Kells, p.
4
Id.ib.
2.
Pictoria, chapter
on Book
246
is
[CH. vi.
John
tury
pass from the inside to the outside of these serviceThe likeness between the metal cases in
books.
Sometimes,
edges.
in
the absence of a
flap,
the
words as they fall from the priest's lips with reverence and intelligence, and keep their eyes fixed upon
the sanctuary.
*:
2
8
p. 22.
Language and
CH. vi.]
THE
Literature.
247
COPTIC LANGUAGE.
The Copts
is
religious
and the
have neither
more curious
For there is no
more abnormal
history.
The
records
of five thousand years ago chiselled on the monuments of Egypt still remain sculptured, though
the very words
standing in. everlasting silence
uttered by the great men of Hellas are still heard
;
book of an Egyptian
Christian.
Now, however,
and antiquarians.
besides be
The
volumes.
be as brief as the
in these
248
[CH. vi.
writer's
is
established religion.
Up to that date the worship
of Osiris had lingered on, particularly in remote
country places, where the gospel was unheard or
awoke but faint echoes. Then however the bishops
began to wield secular power, and amongst other
signs of government they took the important office
of distributing corn to the people out of the hands
of the city prefects x
It was at this period, accord.
no Greek, was
first
Thus
St.
set thinking
lated
2
lib. viii.
p. 712.
GH. vi.]
249
We
were translated
by Pachomius
300 A.D.
and although this is perhaps the
earliest date assignable with certainty, it is extremely
difficult to conceive that the need for setting down
liturgical forms in writing did not assert itself irreIt is of course
sistibly some time before that.
ancient
that
the
most
forms
of prayer in
possible
the Coptic vulgar tongue may have been written
not in Greek but in demotic characters but, interesting as the fact would be, there is not sufficient
:
evidence to establish
think that in
it,
though there
is
reason to
writing
the Copts for full a
thousand years into the Christian era. There seems
no decided point of contact between Coptic and
was preserved
in use
among
hieroglyphic writing.
Long before the Persian conthe
of
quest
hieroglyphics was limited to
knowledge
the priests even as early as the fourteenth century
:
250
[CH. vr.
the
built
terior
tion
many
on the altar-stone of a
little
chapel dedicated to
St.
in the
'
and,
ing to
if so,
the fact
is
ritual.
collision
The
convent
evangelist
is
as Vansleb
commemorated on
The
material of this
Paris, 1808.
Language and
CH. vi.]
Literature.
25 1
Greek 1
St.
We
of St.
man
Ephrem
visited
Egypt
it
is
In the Syriac
related that
to see the
The
upon received a miraculous gift of speech.
author of an Arabic note upon a Coptic MS. states
that before the Arab conquest the lessons were
read in Greek, but explained in Coptic.
Abu 1
Muhassan relates that one 'Abdullah, son of 'Abd
al Malik, governor of Egypt, ordered the registers
of the divans or public offices to be kept in Arabic
instead of Coptic in the year A.H. 96 but to this
day the system of book-keeping in Egypt is a tradi:
MSS.
in the
monastery of
preface that he
made
p. 18.
252
[CH. vi.
of
the
intelligible
though
The
afterwards.
Gabriel
lin-
it
constitu-
1140 A.D.,
patriarch
ordered bishops to explain the creed and the
Lord's prayer in the vulgar tongue, i.e. in Arabic.
The Vatican MSS. are covered with marginal notes
in
Coptic
c.
n.,
in
the early
monks
So
but Sahidic.
'
of
author,
Abu
of Egypt
by which
tells
of a custom at
Christians assist at
it
is
Yet
in
face of such
made by grave
Church
Thus Denzinger
matters.
upon
declares that uno aut altero seculo post Arabum
'
tyrannidem vernaculus
1
linguae
Aegyptiacae usus
p.
467.
Language and
CH. vi.]
Literature.
253
'
prorsus
Neale
among
now used
service-books
is
i.
p.
i.
vol.
i.
p. 118.
254
[CH. vi.
style, the
Arab
conquest,
which the
among the
writing
any
became
already assuming a hieratic character, and was therefore not to be degraded to the uses of common life
;
MSS.
is
that
in
which
Language and
CH. vi.]
Literature.
255
by
standing.
To
this day,
embedded in the
KYpie eXeHCon
like fossils
Thus the
Coptic
language.
a familiar word in the mouth of the present worshippers at various parts of the service most of the
proclamations uttered by the deacon to the people
are still in Greek, ^.cn^ecee A-XXiiXoifc en
ritual
is
$iXHJUL/ri
<LYICU,
eic
<Lit^.ToX
n.peenoc, KOCJULOC,
^.it^cT^-cic, o
eucharistic bread
The
n.rrroKp<LTCUp.
stamped with the trisagion
JC
T P OC ^-Vioc <Le<Lrt.&. Troc
in
God
Egyptian
Greek
still
<LYIOC
^.vioc
is
eeoc,
of ancient
is
origin.
A word
its
Grammar
of the Egyptian
256
New
Testament have
The Sahidic is
the name given
(2)
[CH. vr.
all
been
Arabic j^AjuJ! 1
to Upper Egypt, or
the district of which Thebes was capital, whence the
dialect is also termed Thebaic. It is curious to remark
that the Sahidic, though more remote from the
centre of Greek life, yet adopted more Greek words
than the nearer Coptic and both in Coptic and
Sahidic writing Greek words are very often found
where the native language had a perfectly good equiIn Sahidic it is much more usual than in
valent.
to
Coptic
express the vowels by lines above the conIn the Sahidic dialect almost an entire
sonants.
version of the scriptures, including a complete New
;
exists,
to the
the
in
Delta, has
distinct
The
from Kircher's
'
lished in 1636.
'
Strictly
Arabic
it
is no h
most convenient.
is
the
in the
Language and
CH. vi.]
the
first scientific
that written
1
It
would
ill
Literature.
was
grammar
become a
257
on
this subject,
in
I83O
and most of
all
an
was
first
awakened
in the matter
by the
MSS.
lished a translation of
paid for a fount of Coptic type for the work, summoned from
Cambridge a learned scholar named Thomas Edward who, after
;
New
Testament
at the
his treasures
from
his son.
and Drs. Durell and Wheeler together finally secured the publicaWoide
tion of all three works at the charges of the University.
was next entrusted with the publication of the Sahidic version, and
It was,
far advanced the work, but never lived to see it finished.
however, promptly taken up by Professor Ford, the professor of
Arabic at Oxford, who revised and corrected the whole with the
VOL.
II.'
258
[CH. vr.
own
and housed
called,
in
a separate apartment,
is
that
are
all
A good
ing
list
of
Luxor
i. Canons of the
Coptic Church,
:
and the
text
i2th century.
was issued from the
Since that date very little has been done for the study of Coptic
England, and not much in Oxford but the University Press
:
Oxford scholars have done for the language in the past so lost
are the achievements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
in the oblivion of the nineteenth.
:
contains one
CH. vi.]
2.
Language and
Book of the
gospels,
Literature.
259
i3th century.
I4th century.
Lectionary,
The above are on vellum the rest on paper.
4. Consecration of monks,
1358.
3.
5.
deacon,
lastly,
which
6.
7.
8.
Minor prophets,
9.
Funeral service,
10.
11.
1 6th
12.
i6th century.
i6th century.
vessels,
altar-
7th century.
i8th century.
Consecration of altars and fonts,
14. Many copies of gospels, epistles, the three
2
liturgies, and the various consecration services
Every church has specially attached to its service
a book called in Coptic s^naxar,' i.e. <rwagdpiov, or
13.
'
in
397
A.D.
closely to the
politan, but
that
for patriarch
is
so generally in the
different:
Church of Alexandria.
2
J.
H. Middleton.
260
[CH.VI.
no copy of
is
it
in
any
of course, been
private person's possession.
rendered into Arabic for .use at service and the
legends printed at the end of this work, which are
It has,
listen with
unquestioning reverence.
liturgy or book of the mass is called in Arabic
khulagi,' which is a corrupted form of euchologion.'
The lectionary for the year, or kotmarus,' is a term
of less certain origin.
One may mention also the
The
'
'
'
agblah
Two
Mallg.
In addition to the foregoing books every church
possesses a careful inventory of all its sacred vessels and other belongings, which are verified once a
Book, and resembles in some ways the book of benewhich belonged to some of our great English
factors
p. 62.
CH. vi.]
261
For
materials.
we
at
Durham
'
Altar, an excellent
'
tories will
were
it
is
certain,
own church
they correspond
inventories
and
temper, and
accessible.
in
if,
some ways
as
But
if,
to our
seems highly
the richest
and
manner the
trouble.
1
Durham
CHAPTER
VII.
Eucharist.
the
since
Christianity
Penance.
Copts seem
the
dawn
to
of
have
Of
sick.
the
particular
nature
of these
by the Church of Alexandria, much has already been written, but rather in
times past than in our generation, and rather by
Somecontinental 1 than by English authorities.
mysteries, as interpreted
may
fitly find
work
designed.
to ritual.
facts
which have
2
fallen
of infants
is
The Assemani,
Baptism
is
called
ju^U
confirmation, c*^*^Jl.
purification,
necessary
for
male
263
make
the age
children,
and
'
l
necessary for the mother to be present in the church
Where however there is peril of death, or other
extreme necessity, the child may be baptised at once
.
The Jewish practice of circumon the eighth day is general, but neither compulsory nor counted a religious ceremony yet circumcision after baptism is very strongly prohibited. The
same canon of age for infant baptism prevailed in the
but
Ethiopian, Syrian, and Nestorian Churches
the Armenians and modern Nestorians fix the ceremony for the eighth day after birth, and we read of
the same custom holding even in Cairo. But although
without regard to age.
cision
ancient
infants
custom,
munion
Pococke
is
wrong
in giving the
but there
is
no
real
264
[CH. vn.
these stringent enactments, as a rule, that we discover from time to time the prevailing laxity of
practice.
sidered
We
many
p. 83.
P. 16.
CH. viz.]
265
the rite without the church, yet in a building specially consecrated for the purpose.
glance at the
the
of
church
of
the White
plan
fourth-century
1
Monastery will show the earliest known arrange-
ment
ritual.
with
all
secrated building.
The font is often called the
'Jordan'; but the ancient Coptic name 'fKoXTJULis, of course, of Greek origin.
Bernard of Luxemburg, Jacques de Vitry, and
See
vol.
i.
p. 352.
p. 25.
266
[CH. vn.
common
mony
in the Latin
the authorities
in
the
stating
let off
monies
my
i.
rites
and cere-
obligations to
acknowledge them
2
p. 14.
Neale affirms
all
vol.
ii.
p.
977)
CH. vii.]
267
her children to the bishop in Alexandria to be regularly baptised, the water in the font became frozen
or petrified, to prevent the repetition of a ceremony
thus declared lawful.
Lastly, any remaining doubt
sion
is
used, aspersion
regarded as of equal,
is
There
not
is
if
some ques-
superior, importance.
tion regarding the manner of the Coptic immersion,
was plunged
like
Histoire,
p.8i.
268
[CH. vn.
by
The same
seems
to
doctrine
be the
is
laid
down
what
clearly in
account of Christian
earliest extant
'
manded to
name of the
'
warm
fast,
in explanation of
it,
account
or
See
AtSa'xq
roav
'ATTooroAaw
Greek
version.
The
CH. vir.]
'Seven Sacraments.
269
any water
The meaning
available.
passage doubtless
is
of this obscure
if
pos-
oil
of exorcism on his
after
left.
Then
2jo
'
are to
all
rite
The
[OH. vn.
Thus
the
'
So much
Let
for the Apostolical Constitutions.
us turn now to another version of the ceremony,
written two or three centuries later
1
by Severus
The ceremony
,
The
ciation,
and back
makes three
xii.
oil,
See
Maxima
p. 728.
the renun-
and the
priest
obviously the
the catechumens.
olive
make
Bibliotheca
oil
of exorcism, or
oil
of
torn,
CH. vii.]
Incense
is
now
kindled,
271
The
priest insuf-
pours olive
oil
'
baptised in the
child, places
name
of the Father,
of the Son, Amen and in the
name of the Holy Ghost, Amen.' The wording of
the ritual here signifies that the child is dipped three
saying,
Amen
is
in the
name
font,
on
all his
own
is
dressed in
clothes
Vansleb, Histoire,
p. 85.
272
[CH.VH.
in the same
building, where the
consecrated
both
the
chrism and the oil of
patriarch
exorcism or galilaeon, i.e., t\aioi> ayaAAtao-eooy, as they
call
before Vansleb,
it has arisen in
it is
in the last
times.
priest.
1
used
The
is
pure olive
child
oil,
which
it
existed in the
in that of Ethiopia.
is
blessed by the
is
ritual
is
(Gen. Introd.,
(vol.
iii.
in
Rock
hands
pt. 2. p.
ii.
p.
971): but
is still
retained
and honey were given in our own Church after the eucharist on
Maundy Thursday, and anciently to the newly baptised on Holy
Saturday.
CH. vii.]
273
oil or the
The burning of incense,
galilaeon.
the insufflation, the three crosses of chrism on the
water, the trine immersion, the laying-on of hands or
all have
confirmation, the anointing with chrism,
their place in the service of to-day.
The chrism is
second
anointed
on
who
is
take
set about
it,
child's
2
VOL.
II.
274
[CH. vn.
various
The water
by the
who
priest,
clothes.
is
in allowing confirmation
by the
priest as well as
by
the bishop.
In all these particulars the Copts have
reta ned the early teaching of the catholic Church,
2
.
Abu Dakn makes the rite take place on the third day and in
same passage he affirms that salt is mingled with the chrism by
:
the
the
Copts,
adopted
a monstrous
the Copts
The
their eucharistic
Portuguese
mission
Brussels in 1609.
2
The words of
bered.
statement.
He
St. Basil
'
says
see
the
of the
at
et
CH. vii.]
THE EUCHARIST
275
l
.
To
Coptic usage, avoiding altogether all questions concerning authenticity of texts and order of prayers in
the various liturgies,
questions which are too well
known
oleum
unctionis, praeterea
scriptis ?
Nonne
a tacita
accipit,
traditione
secretaque
ex quibus
Ipsam porro
lam ter im-
on
the chrism
or
iu^-e^
j^si
The
s-sr^.jJl
first
answers to our
2
'
the
^-IJ'llI
bloodless
of these names,
*f~npOCcJ>Op..
with the word used by our Lord,
it
believers, or
korban,'
is
Coptic,
identical
oflete.'
sacrifice
'
276
and then
[CH. \-n.
prayer of absolution and the confession, and communicates to himself and to any others whom he
Every bishop has the same right in his
pleases.
own
A kummus
diocese.
in
communicating takes
We
communion immediately
to the
confirmation
CH. vii.]
277
is
The
priest
penance
inflicted
of the penance
is
in
case of sin
why
so few
according to Vansleb,
it
was
for the
flour specially
korban
is
of the finest
2j8
[CH. vn.
.noc
fr
Called,
>J
is
A.VIOC
therefore,
*-JQl.
Women
specially forbidden
are
to
was sometimes
called
'
'
singing-bread
3
Kit.
same
Or.,
cut.
in
torn.
England.
i.
p.
81.
The
Diet.
Christ.
Antiq.
has
the
CH. vii.]
be Kvpioc)
tion, which
Neale
279
illustra-
whom
all
taken from Sollerius,
statements concerning the form of the Coptic oflete
to
is
is
it
The inmost
'
the
body of the
is
how
2
in
Histoire, p. 100.
f r
arose.
Lord.'
The
isbodikon
the chalice.
ii.
p. 214.
It is
obvious here
280
Greek custom
[CH. vn.
which
is
clergy,
and
is
baked
in
Among
flour
thinner.
Vol.
M. de Fleury has
i.
p. 149,
2
.
wooden mould
for
note 24.
sent
me
Two of these
ninth-century missal in the Bibliotheque Nationale.
are covered with various inscriptions, one containing
DS
REX
TH. vii.j
281
such breads
is
Thus
1429 at York there were bequeathed 'tria instrumenta ferri, vocata syngyngirons,
alia instrumenta ferri pro pane ad eucharistiam orij
That the practice of stamping the housel
dinando 1
is very early seems
proved by the continuous testiof
artistic
monuments.
The wafers figured in
mony
the sixth-century mosaics at Ravenna, in S. Vitale
and S. Apollinare in Classe, are designed with a
central cross
on the golden altar of Milan, dating
from the ninth century, St. Ambrose is figured
standing behind an altar, on which are four crossed
wafers
a like wafer is shown in the eleventhmissal
of St. Denys 2 and wherever the
century
wafer is painted in Coptic pictures, it is represented
with a single cross in the same manner. This fact
in no way militates against the antiquity of the
gested above.
in
.'
has to be rendered 3
The eucharistic wine is unfermented, and is made
from the juice of dried grapes or raisins, which are
left to soak for a considerable time in water, and
then crushed in a wine-press.
A press of the kind
.
La Messe, vol.
i.
pis.
viii, xiii.
'
282
[CH.
v.
but
at Abu-'s-Sifain has already been described
the wine is usually made at Cairo in the satellite
:
There
Zuailah.
it is
apiece,
deep aumbry.
strength and in
year round.
in the Harat-az-
large wicker-covered
gallons
name
The wine
is
or four
three
holding
jars,
some of which
saw stored
made
of
in
sufficient
Raisin-wine
is
wine
their
eucharistic
bread,
a practice
strongly
and of
1
St. Cyril
When
the last
is
is
Gregory of Nazianzen,
also called by the name
often called
the
In the Coptic
"f'A.nA.pH,
first
or the
first-fruits.
CH. vii.]
of St. Mark.
On
283
midnight masses of
Epiphany, Easter, and Christmas and that of St.
Cyril is used during the seasons of the Great and
The hour
the Little Fast, i.e. Lent and Advent 1
for ordinary mass on Sunday is always tierce: no
second celebration is allowed on the same altar
during the day, and no vestment or vessel which
has served once at the mass may be used again till
for three
solemn
festivals, the
service
who
all
the
is
'
Hymns
of
Moses
'
while the
Besides
fabric.
Lord Bute
Service, p.
viz.
ii).
284
[CH. vn.
wafer
in a small silken
tion,
Similarly he places
the
round veil marked
over
wafer
a
small
immediately
with three crosses above it he sets the dome or
to the lesser veil of the rubrics.
star
that
it
The
ark
the chalice
is
is
just high
enough
of the ark.
the rim of
CH. vii.]
285
has a large cross embroidered upon it. This accomplished, the priest kneels and kisses the altar.
At
He
choir sing the three anthems of the incense.
then descends, and stands before the door facing
eastward, and scatters the fumes about the doorway
:
rise
and bend
their
heads.
are
still
is read in Arabic
but the reader now stands
on the steps before the haikal and faces the congregation. A lection from the Acts is read in the same
manner or sometimes in lieu a chapter is recited
from the history of the Church, or the life of a saint.
lesson
And when
and bows
From
286
[CH. vn.
which
'
Stand ye people
for the
holy gospel.'
Hereupon the celebrant
censes the sealed silver book of the gospel, and de-
it
to another priest,
it
and a candle
standard candlestick, which
is
lighted taper,
is
1
purpose beside the lectern
the same passage is then given from the doorway,
the deacons still holding their tapers by the reader,
.
who now
2
given to kiss to the people
1
The
on p. 66 supra.
that
this custom may account for the practice of
possible
enclosing the textus in a complete shell of metal. This procession
2
See
illustration
It is
our
own
OH. vii.]
287
tinguished and the gospel borne back to the sanctuary. All the ministers stand round the door while
and
The
priest
choir
falls
were then extinguished (vol. iii. pt. 2. p. 32). The Ordo Romanus
says that the deacon received the gospel from the subdeacon, and
held it to be kissed by clergy and laity.
Pope Honorius III in
the thirteenth century forbade the gospel to be kissed by any layexcept an anointed prince, quite forgetting the meaning of
man
the ceremony.
is
allowed
been closed for the people. This kissing the gospel is, of
course, quite distinct from the pax or kiss of peace, which seems
to have been first used in England in the thirteenth century.
The
pax is mentioned as an instrument first in the constitutions of archto have
in
Germany.
(See
Lay
Folks'
Mass Book,
ed.
Canon Simmons,
288
[CH.VH.
The
triumphal
hymn
follows,
Now
little mats, which are upon the altar, and holds them
with outspread arms 2 during the commemoration of
It may be that the mats are so
the Redemption.
consecrated for subsequent usage at the communion.
,
At
CH. vn.]
289
'
Kyrie eleeson.'
people cry
that the offertory is made.
It
is
Two
at
this
point
acolytes
move
It is
of Lent, to write
relatives,
whom
they wish
commemorated
at
the
mass.
have
memoration
'
is,
all
servants,
whose names
the living, M. or N. :
the dead, M. or N.'
Special prayers for special cases are sometimes added: thus for a son dismissed from his employment a
are here written, in the
VOL.
II.
Lord, the
290
[CH. vn.
'
both
hands and
not, of
At
ancient custom.
prayer,
'
'
Taking
it
it,
in the chalice.
When
On
which
follows, the star or dome is seen resting on the
paten, and under it a small green veil embroidered
with crosses, which covers the wafer.
Suddenly the
adoration.
the
removal
of
the
veil
CH. vii.]
291
while
in the
all
name of
the Lord.'
is
In the Celtic
rite,
women were
Warren mentions
also
an
Irish
women were
forbidden to enter,
as was the custom at Anba
Shanudah and another church, where they were not allowed to
approach the altar. See Lit. and Rit. of Celtic Church, pp. 136:
138-
292
[CH. vn.
with his finger and licks his finger washes out the
In like
chalice with water, and drinks the rinsings.
:
hundred
fifteen
communicants as follows
Further, touching
with thy hands the moisture remaining on thy lips,
sanctify both thine eyes and thy forehead and the
What other Church preother organs of sense 1
serves in so startling a manner the minutiae of
for
.'
primitive tradition ?
Finally, when the vessels
are
same
size
holding up
wafers, are
disperses.
My
Eulogiae,
and
These wafers are of
their faces.
now
and the
distributed,
for consecration,
salt,
as Vansleb z
My stag.
2
22.)
The
'
CH. vii.]
293
any part of
So
moment
any
now
in
particular
use
is
kiss of peace
vol.
iii.
in
a casket of silver
See Rock,
part 2. p. 185.
The canons
Histoire, p.
of
St.
288
i.
fin.
Chrysostom.
294
[CH. vn.
In the eleventh
severe penance for his negligence.
century the monks of Dair Abu Makdr in the
western desert were in the habit of reserving the
host
from
Palm
Sunday
to
Maundy Thursday.
When
not
mean
communion of the
is
quite erroneous
p.
429.
neither the
CH. vii.]
295
mingling
in the chalice at
a subsequent celebration,
serpent and the consequent discontinuance of reservation has already been mentioned.
As regards
regions where there are no churches.
the communion of sick persons, no doubt there have
been times in Coptic history when the korban was
kept over the day of celebration for their advantage
or rather for the advantage of the priests, who were
thus saved the trouble of consecration at unforeseen
;
Nevertheless, where
moments.
vailed,
it
was
distinctly
this
an abuse
And
and
tapers.
it
states that
296
it
In order that he
forthwith himself.
The
fasting.
housel
confession, and
ness
is
he
in
[CH. vn.
may be
ready
is
is
failing.
If the
slips into
spoon
from the
earliest times.
When
Natrun
he had a dispute with the monks regarding the
to the
when
'
receive
it
CH. viz.]
297
The
invocation too
And
'
his finger,
secrated again.
Masses for the repose of the souls of the dead in
the Romish sense are entirely unknown in the Church
298
PENANCE OR CONFESSION
The sacrament
[CH.
'.
But, needless
point of doctrine at the present day.
to say, doctrine and practice have conflicted at
In the middle of
various points of Coptic history.
the
twelfth
patriarch,
is
patriarch,
letters
'
makes
made
to a priest
and
in
these days
it
is
and
this
is
measure of penance
sions.
Arabic
smoke of burning
CH. vii.]
incense
said to
is
mission of guilt,
when John
299
for
open ad-
is
and
is
deprecatory.
penitent stands before the priest with bended
knees and bowed head. Both say the Lord's prayer
The
he kisses beseeching his prayers. Penance foland must be strictly carried out, the penitent
rendering account of all his thoughts and actions to
feet
lows,
the priest.
that
When
When
an apostate or notorious
evil-liver
is
re-
300
CH. vn.
the priest recites other prayers and the form of absoThou art
lution, dismissing him with the words
'
.'
some needless
repetition.
p. 190.
to contain
CHAPTER
VIII.
Matrimony.
ORDERS
^COGNITION
(continued).
l
.
bishop,
chief priest or
kummus,
priest,
2
The subarchdeacon, deacon, reader
deacon also is a distinct order, and his position is
but his
clearly defined as inferior to the deacon
.
rank
is
Arabic
Arabic
-iJI
3
4
dy^i-Jl
<_po,,
or
Arabic t^LJl.
In a fourth-century
priest,
tsJ^kJI,
^lall, i_ia-ill,
u-U-iJl, and
MS.
memoration
at the
mass
see
Fragmentum Evangelii
4to.).
S.
Johannis
Precisely the
Abu Makar,
same
early in the
eleventh century
see Quatremere, Recherches Critiques et Historiques sur la Langue et la Litte"rature de 1'Egypte, p. 248.
:
302
vm.
[CH.
The Patriarch.
The
'
style
'
'
'
'
eminence
the
title
use
at
'
'
and that
was borrowed by Rome, having been in
father of fathers
Alexandria
since
or al baba
the time of
the
first
'
'
is
Patriarchs,'
i.
p.
349.
n.
and 28
n.
CH. viii.]
303
In the
Rum
serves as the
still
palace/
vol.
p.
9 seq.
i.
p.
360
seq.
ratified
by
Neale, Alexandria,
304
the people
didate,
vm.
Before
election.
Alexandria
[CH.
D.
was removed
and
finally
Cairo
claim to preeminence.
recognised as the place of election, the ceremony of
enthronement was always held at Alexandria, and
was followed by a formal proclamation at Dair
all
of the council
is
in
CH. viii.]
Nestorians
first
of
in
1
.
305
From
electing a
all
name
among them.
of Christ
method,
first
adopted
in
Egypt
Macarius
In the Coptic practice, however, the names
of Masr.
were placed under the altar, not upon it. When the
candidate was thus chosen, whether by acclamation
or
lot,
name
in the church,
agios.
He
remarries.
to
Mark
is
said
306
[CH.
vm.
successors
Ephraim
John
and Isaac
John
XLVITI in 775
Now
The legend
of the vine in
is
Egypt
CH. viii.]
307
is
drew
office
life
and character,
he fulfilled
Sometimes also he
to ascertain that
308
[CH.
vm.
was compelled
to
engaging
Thus Michael LXVIII promised, among other things,
to pay the annual tribute to Alexandria to eschew
and to anathematise the practice of simony; and to
restore the churches of Al Mu'allakah and Al Adra
Harat-ar Rum to their bishops for these churches
had been usurped by Christodulus. But no sooner
was Michael seated on the throne than he tore up
;
new
CH. viii.]
act of ritual,
monkhood an
309
make anterior
The latter is a
to
essential of election.
On
gelist.
in
later times,
stolen
and
pall.
is
is
priests
and
altar.
first
all
Then
on
on
the senior
3io
[CH.
vm.
Now
the bishops
After various
altar.
the senior
and
the
Then
patrashil
and chasuble.
All
return to their places in the tribune, while the sysinstrument of ordination is read by
tatical letter or
all
is
while
1
all
The language
The patriarch
CH. viii.]
31
sits
'
In olden times
picture of St. Mark and his banner.
at Alexandria the procession made a station in the
it
was customary
for
the
1
The ceremonies of installation are given rather differently by
Vansleb (Histoire, pp. 162-9), wno mentions a large cross of iron
as laid on the altar under the paten, and taken by the patriarch
But
instead of the crozier, when he assumes his pontifical robes.
would
be, I
for
it.
312
The
story
[CH.
vm.
is
which
it
great treasure.
the port and 'Amr, sending to know the reason,
discovered that they had taken the head. When it
;
endowments,
who
occupies the chair. It is still customary to 'worship' before him, i.e. to fall prostrate on the ground,
laying the forehead in the dust, and then to kiss the
pontiff's hand.
great
Renaudot's
part
of the
treatise
De
materials
used
is
obviously
above
Patriarcha Alexandrino.
is
some mis-
taken
from
CH. viii.]
313
secration of a
a candidate
monkmust
be
on
Vespers
kept
Saturday preceding
the Sunday of ordination, and the night passed in
vigil, during which the new bishop repeats the whole
of the psalms and the gospel of St. John. The neighbouring bishops, clergy, and laity are summoned to
receive the angelic raiment and the order of
hood.
and moving
1
city.
mass
Vansleb mentions only three, Damietta, Jerusalem, and EthiNo doubt the see of Damietta was once metropolitan but
opia.
it is
all
[CH.
vm.
number
three of their
makes a
cession
is
and
the
into
election
is
who hands
choir
formally
it
The instrument of
again.
delivered to the patriarch,
ambon.
Turning now eastward to the altar, the pontiff
takes from it the dark-coloured ballin, and places
this on the new bishop instead of the shamlah 1
,
it
it is
that the
'
black hood
white crosses
upon
it.
'
in the painting of
three
CH. vin.]
cross at the
hand of the
and the
patriarch,
The
who
kyrie
is
315
signs his
sung here,
ward again
of the
new
apparel. When the bishop is fully arrayed, the patriarch delivers to him the small cross wherewith to give
some
Then
the cup separately into the bishop's hand.
the corporal is placed over the sacred elements the
;
to
316
[CH.
vm.
'
'
'
'
cross
upon the
is taken
up by the clergy and the people,
the choir singing and the bells ringing and lastly,
at the words They are retained/ all the people shout,
'
of the service,
when
the benediction
is
to
be given
then
to
proceed
the
patriarch's
festival is kept.
Here,
dwelling,
too, the
to his diocese.
The
1
installation of the
bishop at his
own church
C. xx.
Vansleb, Histoire,
p.
172.
fasting in
See
p. 33.
CH. viii.]
317
follow,
and they
other prayers
Just within
enter.
the door the senior bishop reads the prayer of absothen come more lessons,
lution over the new prelate
;
down
to the haikal,
where
all
of the
Holy
Spirit,
in procession
C. xxi. 1-7.
C.
xvi.
by three
13-19.
318
days of
festival,
is
[CH.
vm.
now turned
to feasting.
The number
of episcopal sees under the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Alexandria is at present four-
teen
but
in ancient
Vansleb
i.
Nakadah,
2.
Girgah,
3.
Abu
Tig,
4. Siut, 5.
Man-
Koskam, 7. Malafah and Miniah, 8. Bahnasah, 9. Atfiah, 10. Tahta and Ashmunain, 1 1. Faium,
12. Bilbais, 13. Mansurah, 14. Damietta, 15. Manuf,
Bahairah, and the port of Alexandria, which are
united.
At present there remain the following:
i. Gizah,
2. Faium and Bahnasah, 3. Miniah and
Ashmunain, 4. Sanabu and Koskam, 5. Manfalut,
6. Siut, 7. Girgah and Akhmim, 8. Abu Tig, 9. Kainah, Kuss, and Nakadah, 10. Asnah, 1 1. Al Khartum,
12-14. three dioceses in Abyssinia under the metro-
falut, 6.
politan.
Kummus.
There are two senses
in
kummus
used, or
is
somewhat corresponding
he
to that of
an English rector
The name
dral.
In
applies even to the superior of the catheother meaning it signifies the head or
its
CH.
vm.]
319
in his sacerdotal
Two
vestments.
archpriests lead
head.
new kummus
is
read,
admonishing the
Priest.
age
320
[CH.
vm.
before the
The
sign the candidate's forehead with a cross.
proclamation of the candidate as priest follows,
whereupon the bishop makes three more crosses
on his forehead, and vests him in sacerdotal apparel.
After the thanksgiving a priest delivers the exhortation there is also a special admonition concerning
the duty of confessing the people and of exercising
great discretion in dealing with penitents. The new
priest kisses the book containing the exhortation,
and the threshold of the haikal, and the hand of
;
and
all
name
of the
Vansleb the
priest
According
bishop also breathes upon his face, saying, Receive
thou the Holy Ghost;' but the rubrics do not seem
to mention insufflation.
and
his
to
cure.
'
Ordination
fast lasting
is
from sunset
lowing afternoon.
Deacon.
is
CH. viii.]
32 1
his office,
at the
When
inferior order.
his head.
The
of reader in the
bowed
low.
He
is
.dalmatic,
brought,
322
[CH.
vm.
sinia 1 , according to
made to touch the
No
the
may
enter
eucharist
The
singer
is
Monk.
Three years of
order of
monkhood
Denzinger,
ii.
p.
6 note.
CH. viii.]
323
burial
service
in
For
a cope
asceticism.
MATRIMONY
1
.
When
Arabic
s-
Y 2
324
name
of the Lord.'
bridegroom
door,
and
Other chaunts
follow,
is
and the
Similarly
at the
and led
women.
if
vm.
the bride
for
is
[CH.
cope, which it
customary for the bridegroom to
the
to
present
patriarch, who puts on the gift for the
service.
The service comes just after matins.
is
and with a white covering on his head moreover the patriarch places the ring on the ring-finger
of the bridegroom's right hand, and pronounces over
waist,
him
his benediction.
The
celebrant
leading the
waiting, and
also a crown
forth her
the choir
man
is
hand
fastened.
And when
the
woman
puts
CH. viii.]
325
her willingness to become his wife, and the celebrant inclines their heads together.
Thence the
man and woman go to the doorway of the choir, and
the bride stands at the bridegroom's right hand.
When
orison places
'
'
ii.
p.
364
seq.
326
follow, a procession
church with
lights
is
[CH.
vm.
When
when they
are
'
'
the Copts
JjJuiiJ
oo,
or
CH. viii.]
327
to be administered solely
Church to those who are
it is
follows.
lamp
an
wick
until the
lighting of the
if
he be
person,
take part in the service, advances to the door of the
There the chief priest
haikal, facing to the east.
holds the silver gospel and the cross high above his
head, and then lays his hands upon the sick man's
temples but while the chief priest alone recites the
:
orisons, all the priests severally give their benediction, recite the Lord's prayer, and open the gospel,
reading the passage on which they chance to open.
1
See the
illustration of
such a lamp on
p.
76 supra:
Ancient Coptic
328
Chiirches.
[CH.
vm.
the cross
man
too
ill
fatiguing ceremony
substitute is put in his place, but the service is not
performed outside the consecrated building, and is
The Armenian
rite for
closely resembles the Coptic in its use of a sevenwicked lamp but differs in allowing the service to
be held at the bedside, in cases where the sick
person is unable to go to the-church.
:
Vita,
Antiq. q.
viii.
v.
58,
59:
Boll.
Sept.
26,
CH. viii.]
329
l
Seven
anointing of the sick with oil of the lamp
ritual
in
as
the
also
are
Coptic
priests
required,
and the oil is kept burning in a seven-wicked lamp
.
Euchol., p. 842.
Id., p.
436.
CHAPTER
IX.
The Holy
THE HOLY
OILS.
in the
West
sick.
respondence
for
it is
Various Ceremonies.
olive oil distinguished.
Greek
in
ayaAAiao-eoo?
The
latter
331
was
also called
whence, by a curious
eXaioj/,
1
corruption, the term galilaeon was formed in Coptic,
and constantly stands in the rubrics and prayers
ever
oil.
There
no
is
difficulty
what-
'
'
oleum catechumenorum
'
same
in
oil
of Palestine.
The most
is
oil,
or
an elaborate compound.
polis.
was
Holy Family
it is
'
In
Pharaonis, cui Deus maledicat.
Ainschemes provenit balsami arbor, quod nullibi
terrarum nisi hie nascitur V As a matter of fact the
horti
fuisse
An
The term
intermediate form
is
is
also found,
A.V^.XXieX^.Iort.
Arabic form
^j^-Jil.
J.
D.
332
balsam-tree
found also
is
last tree in
Egypt
is
in
[CH. ix.
said to
son of Saladin,
flatly
denied
had another
prove
well dug close to the Virgin's fountain.
For a year
the balsam trees were watered only from the new
well and the result was that they yielded not one
Next year the vizier caused them
drop of balsam.
to be watered in equal quantities from both wells
and they produced then half the usual amount of
this truth
and, to
his contention,
balm.
The
third
when
year,
the
water of the
each
is
and so
Next
steep for a day.
of
has
which
never
oil,
pure
morning eight pounds
been contained in any vessel of leather, is poured
fresh water,
upon the
spices,
moderate
fire,
left to
and made
to boil all
2
.
day over a
wood
or
is
is
olive
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
333
From
boiling the whole of the Psalms are recited.
time to time the spices are stirred with a wand of
and as the water fails, it is replenished. In
olive
;
the evening the pot is taken off the fire, and the oil
left to cool all night till the following morning, when
it is strained through linen.
Then
For the
day
dissolved.
linen
Then
the chrism
is
passed through a
strainer
when
it
is
and
is
stirred
of
Originally
tinues
it
if
St.
it
all really
early paint-
as described
by a Coptic
prelate,
in
in
334
at Alexandria,
is
[CH.IX.
it
Good
Friday, and
the
390, by
patriarch
Theophilus, in obedience to the command of an
The same angel taught
angel seen in a vision.
is
that the
to
c.
in the legend.
As
it
monastery.
When
assemble at
two oils which
laity
The
galilaeon, are
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
335
l
Service
placed in separate vessels on the high altar
with
a
incense,
begins
thanksgiving accompanied by
.
and a prayer
is
by the
recited
Then
patriarch.
'
and when
it is
'
over, the
The same
placed between them.
of wood specially made, one on each
is
'
:
but the term is obviously inaccurate, mere
pedestals being required if anything, and no mention being made
even of these in the rubrics. The statement doubtless arises from
See Histoire,
3
p.
The Copts
231 seq.
say that the chrism represents the
balm used
at the
entombment.
3
torn.
i.
p. 251,
is
336
[CH. ix.
is
'
it.
From
seems almost to have disappeared through a confusion with the oil of the sick, which is hallowed
from time to time as required the consecration of
chrism has become an extremely rare occurrence.
Not that its worth has been in any way depreciated
on the contrary it is regarded still as no less necessary than sovereignly precious but for the last two
or three hundred years at least it seems to have
been made in larger quantities, and consequently at
For the ceremony, which should
longer intervals.
be annual, now takes place once in every thirty
or forty years.
According to Pococke a definite
;
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
337
The myron
from
now used
new
is
the dedication of a
vessel,
patriarch.
There is a
Greek usage
close resemblance
as regards the
term
is
used
as elaborate
in
for the
vessel.
oil
receives
In the
West
and balsam.
the chrism
The
three
oils
were
oil
consecrated
Goar, Euchol.,
VOL. II.
p.
637.
338
[CH. ix.
and
'
call
'
first
THE CONSECRATION
OF A
The
The
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
339
every lesson a
after
hymn
chaunted.
is
Next the
all
Then
rising,
wear
their
From
whole church
After the
first
Z 2
340
[CH. ix.
is
pontiff,
who
signs the
myron
The
is
now
accomplished,
Thus
the pillars at
Abu Sargah have dedication crosses cut into the
marble others are seen in Al Muallakah, Al Adra
by the
all
and I
procession round the outside of the church
have no doubt that such a procession never formed
:
marked by a
Museum
In the British
a French miniature
representing a
bishop on a ladder making a cross upon the wall of
there
is
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
a church.
as the. total
number
341
prescribes twelve
but twenty-four was the more usual
form
in
is
on the
P. 2
supra,
figs, i
and
2.
342
[CH. ix.
same
altar-slab
is
vested in
its
three
The Roman
Romanum dementis
the
viii
most
full
account, with
nitum.
Mechlin, 1873.
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
The
relics
343
are deposited
is
is
Chrism
is
relics,
mass proceeded.
The Greeks also,
their dedication.
The
church
in the
it
saying,
built in
344
THE CONSECRATION
[CH. ix.
OF A BAPTISTERY.
Such
is,
The
Then
At
the
Various Ceremonies.
CH. rx.]
345
on
Then he
in
it
'
>
name
of the
Holy
Trinity, of the
'
at the
of the fonts of our holy fathers the apostles
font
I
^
this
after
the
manner
consecrate
south,
:
'
when he
'
.'
to
one
rubric,
the five
ii.
pp. 236-248.
346
THE
[CH.
i.\.
'.
to give an account in
customs of a people so
much given
solemn observances.
Of
at
night.
The
He
a cross of iron
or
2
An
illustration is
seen by Vansleb at
this
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
347
whom
of the three
who
Those who
selves
disported
themselves,
drapeless.
It is not surprising that such a custom led to scenes
of unseemliness, which caused its abolition.
After the aspersion follows the ordinary office of
matins, and a festival celebration of the korban.
The
The
festival special
back to the
of
building,
and
it
became
It is
one of the
in
the
narthex.
on
Quite
in
348
[CH.
i.\.
while,
on
Mohammedan
Sifain,
era,
such as
is
Abu-'s-
That
original structure.
festival of the Epiphany
consecration of
down
by the multitude of
thrown into the water,
a number of men plunge in, and struggle for its
possession for it is supposed to bring to the owner
When
the people.
the cross
is
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
The
like
ceremony
lingers to
this
349
day also
in
Armenia.
who
When
choir, the
in the
open
air
over
all
is
and
re-
rivers
vicinity.
is
the
name given by
the Copts
There
way
ritual.
is
all
Passing
Nones,
at
at 3 p.m.
7.30 p.m.
(2)
at
(7)
Dawn
noon.
or
(5)
Compline,
350
[CH. ix.
are
those
appointed
the
for
if
branches.
To
closed.
On Maundy Thursday
tierce, sext,
and nones
are duly recited after which, if there be no consecration of the holy oils to come first, a procession is
formed to the small tank in the nave, where the
;
hymns on
Called juioJI
u-f+
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.]
them with a
dries
On
towel.
this day,
351
immediately
kiss
are omitted.
In the
Armenian
rite
for
Maundy Thursday
vessel of water
all
tions
relate
to
faithful
When
on
is
or Great Friday.
352
[CH. ix.
Upon
altar.
is
While
it is
it is
fast.
Friday
it
is
on Easter eve.
On
the night of
psalter
also a procession through the
church, in which stations are made, while the choir
is
recited.
There
is
or Saturday of Light.
The name points to the
fire as practised in the Greek Church
Greeks
this particular.
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix.j
353
a great
lasts
number of hymns
all
through
the
follow,
hours of
darkness.
On
sary for the priest to wear all the liturgical vestments at matins as well as at mass. As soon as the
is
deacons without
hymn
of the resurrection.
When
the
apparently at this
point that the cross and the picture of the crucifixion
are disentombed from the cavity under the altar.
hymn
is
It is
They chaunt
Sundays.
i.
i.
e.
e.
VOL.
ii.
A a
354
THE
SEASONS OF FASTING.
[CH. ix.
nor even at the present day has the general recognition of such seasons in any way diminished, though
now, as before, there are many individual examples
of laxity. Lent is, of course, the most important time
of fasting, and so is called the Great Fast l in conIn
tradistinction to Advent or the Little Fast 2
ancient times Lent began on the day after the feast
of Epiphany, and lasted for forty days. Holy Week
was then a separate season, some six weeks later
than the end of Lent, and coinciding with the Jewish
.
to
it
Week.
The
ness a dispensation
be needful.
is
The Mohammedan
somewhat resembles the Christian Lent in its regulations, and was probably borrowed from it.
During
Lent mass is celebrated at nones except on Saturday
and Sunday.
The
greater part of
ftwt^i
"
"
^i>t^XJl
r
Holy Week
is
also observed
.a.!'
.l
\
+
" <o.
Various Ceremonies.
CH. ix. j
355
was, and
It
together *.
spent the
eve of Epiphany, a
Another
The legend
fast is
to
massacre
him
all
fast
engaged
for
a week for
to the
started
A a
356
fast
[CH. ix.
Heraclius.
The
tion varies.
for three
days, which
is
CHAPTER
X.
this
day died
St.
Rome.
the city of
ST. MERCURIUS.
who was of
His grandfather and
Mercurius,
'
358
[CH. x.
'
'
'
will not
the
May
his intercession
be with
us.
CH. x.j
359
'
Amen.
LEGEND OF ABU-'S-SIFAIN
On
this
day we
2
.
among
the faces of
dogs.
When
'
I. e.
Abu- s-Sifain
360
[CH. x.
name.
In the time of St. Basilius there was a king, a
This king imhypocrite, whose name was Julianus.
Basilius
prisoned Basilius and went to war abroad.
in his prison some other Christian prisoners,
and while he prayed he
for whom he went to pray
saw
tyranny.
and
Thereupon Basilius
He bowed his head.
May
enemy
his prayers
till
be with
us,
Amen.
On
CH. x.]
361
So
him
His
Father Cyrillus.
him
'
'
commandments
He
left
and he died
many
362
May
the
blessing of his
prayers
[CH. x.
be with
us.
Amen.
On
this
He
When
CH. x.j
Mareotis.
363
this
con-
body.
secrated the church, and the fame of its wonder
spread on every side. All this was wrought by the
us.
Amen.
..
the
boy with
ceasing that
of salvation.
When
her.
God
The
prayed without
would lead his son in the way
father
the saint
grew
up,
364
[CH.
x.
there.
telling
was a
The woman
Christian, he thought
'
This widowed
woman
Then he
persecuted, and God will avenge her.'
and
his
from
his
turned
down
face
to the
horse,
got
went
towards the dragon,
east and prayed and he
all the people watching him from the walls.
The
twelve
was
cubits
of
this
but
the
dragon
length
Lord gave Tadrus power against the dragon, and he
Thus he
pierced him with his spear and slew him.
Thence he
delivered the widow's two children.
went to Upper Egypt to look for his father. There
he found him, and knew him by means of tokens
which his father showed him. He abode in that
then he went back to
place until his father died
where
found
the
he
Antioch,
king had become a
heathen, and was persecuting the believers in Christ.
So he went to the king, and confessed before him
Ere this the priests of the
the Lord Jesus Christ.
idols had slandered him to the king, and the people
is
him.
Then
the king
in the
commanded
fire,
to burn him
so
and beheaded him. His
;
A woman
CH. x.j
365
in
the
year
280 of the
He was
Messiah.
captain
in
the
army
at
Dicaeopolis.
Then he
Whereupon the
good courage made him vizier, not
He
Now
in Christ.
is
'
'
(sic)
to
The
consul said,
'
this thing
'
Who
Mdri Girgis
366
answered and
witness
'
said,
the
to
truth.'
am
[CH. x.
Then
where they tied his feet, and put a pavingstone upon his breast.
He continued till next day
thanking God and on the morrow, being brought
prison,
faith.
Then
the
'
CH. x.j
367
By
Amen.
Next he
but the arrows came not nigh them at all.
commanded them to be cast into a burning fiery
furnace but the Lord sent his angel, and delivered
them from the fire. Then the king commanded
;
them
368
[CH. \.
them.
Near
this
of the idols,
LEGEND OF YAKUB AL
M UK ATT A,
On
OR ST. JAMES
PIECES.
He
'
letter, saying,
Jesus Christ,
wit
fire
Why
and sun
herein, we
forward.'
Know
to
When
that
if
CH. x.j
369
Christian
king's service.
Then
So they
and
his
hands and
thirty-two pieces.
his arms,
Whenever they
legs,
into
O God of the
sang hymns, and said,
Christians, receive unto thee a branch of the tree in
'
him, he
sann
and
its
When
to
me
VOL.
I. e.
ii.
in the springtime.
Nisann corresponds
to April.
370
[CH. x.
his
body of
St.
'
Amen.
of the feast.
Where
none knoweth.
May
his prayers
be with
us.
Amen.
now
is
CH. x.j
371
money
or price.
When
Then
'
'
burial
Hearing
this
372
[CH. x.
beheaded and obtained eternal life. When the persecution was over, the people built to them churches,
which were consecrated on such a day as this and
;
On
the wilderness, he
'
Father which
art in heaven.'
Then he
said to him,
called
'
CH. x.]
373
"
if
we
we
are sick,
are naked,
we
who visit
who clothe
us
find those
find those
whatsoever we desire
we can
obtain
us
;
and
but
if
we
anything
all
these
food.
little
Then
up the ghost
1
.
The
saint Bifnutius
wrapped him
He
is
the
same
exactly.
he
374
fell
[CH. x.
saint,
On
all
their
'
1
The sister of the
The Tree of Pearls,'
last khalif
A.D. 1000.
vol.
i.
CH. x.]
375
showed
in
his
by reason
weakness and feeblemindedness. So God
virtue
all
men and
all,
pity upon them and upon
all creatures, and his
making all men equal before
him in whatsoever they asked. He murmured not
at any, but was long-suffering and of good patience.
With him great and small were one, poor and rich,
bond and free all were equal before him in charity.
well-doing for
his
that
by hearing.
So when he came out from the
cave, he went on
there he abode suffering
heat and cold during winter and summer. And he
always tormented himself, staying in the sun all the
and
'
The Arabic
is
'
literally
long-minded/
Ancient Coptic
376
CJiurcJies.
[CH. x.
all
'
He
of Egypt took him out from the church, and persecuted him and imprisoned him
but Barsum
foreknew this one day before it happened. When
;
'
'
And
of innocence,
hath said in his book
God changed the bitterness
of their torment into sweetness:' and also as the
this is as the
full
'
light
CH. x.j
377
This saint
all
his life
He was
None
converted
despair.
He
in office,
and
their
378
which dwelt
innocent angels of
[CH. x.
Spirit,
to the
light,
He
saints.
Abu
This was
Markura.
in
by the name of
also
martyrs
May
known
his prayers
be with us
till
Amen.
On
this
day we
the body of the immaculate Lady the Virgin Mortomariam 2 Mother of Christ the Son of God, the Word
,
made
flesh
from
her.
them
in the flesh.
On
She stretched
of the disciples
1
The
'
Tree of Pearls
fied at the
2
'
is
wrongly
identi-
CH. x.]
company
of angels
and
hand
in
379
saints.
'
Then
raiment of gold.'
fell
the souls of
on
their faces,
May
us.
Amen.
He was wont
on
his head,
great thirst.
the flesh with a rugged rope, till it ate its place away,
and an evil smell came forth. The monks could not
380
[CH. x.
The
departure of the saint from the monastery.
abbot told his vision to the monks, who were sore
amazed, and soon came out searching after him.
Thereupon they found him
in the pit,
without food
When
in the
thirty
cubits
at his
all
and
His
and
fell
and came to
She wept greatly,
years,
pillar.
The
saint
CH. x.]
381
when he accomplished
The
came
May
his prayers
be with
us.
Amen.
LEGEND OF MAR!NA.
On
this
saint,
bride of Jesus
Christ, Marina.
382
When the
[CH. \.
soldiers desired to
'
me
forsake
not.'
governor, and
The
returned
soldiers
to
the
We
'
'
great honour.'
'
said,
To
this Galilean
CH. x.]
383
'
'
'
believe.'
So
all
There seeing
city.
and angels of light, she
may
pray'
'
384
[CH. x.
and made the sign of the cross upon the sword, and
took the head of the saint. Thus she won the crown
of martyrdom. The executioner went hastily to the
prince, and smote his own neck with the sword, confessing the Lord God of this martyr, and won everlasting happiness.
May their prayers be with us.
Amen.
LEGEND OF TAKLA.
On
came together
virgin, Takla,
desired her to
change
this
way
of thinking.
It
came
CH. x.j
385
his feet.
When her own
found
her
knew
that
she was at the
not, they
people
So the prince ordered to burn her.
apostle's feet.
Her mother
'
Burn
her,' that
all
her body and her face, she cast herself into the fire.
Then the women who were standing by wept for
her but the Lord sent forthwith much rain and
;
them
Then
went unto
St. Paul,
her in the
Christ.
Christ
VOL.
II.
C C
386
[CH. x.
father
and
after that,
it
is
LEGEND OF ABU
day won martyrdom the noble saint Abu
who
was of Kalin in the Gharbieh, a soldier
Sikhirun,
On
this
Abu
ruler,
torture them.
Some
that
and to
manded
girdles,
the saint
Abu
Sikhirun should be
beaten gloriously.
Next,
CH. x.j
through the
city.
Then he was
387
gave him
to eat of this
cooked poison.
But the
'
'
and
his
lasting bliss.
May the intercession of this saint be with us,
guard
us,
and save
us.
Amen.
c c 2
and
388
LEGEND OF
On
[CH. x.
ST. SOPHIA.
all this
So
the ruler
commanded
'
am
a Christian.'
and
commanded
Then
in the
St.
Sophia
which she asked of God
Then
she
cut off her head with the edge of the sword and she
the crown of martyrdom and immortality in the
;
won
kingdom of heaven.
Christian
purchased
woman
and wrapped
it
in
many
it
in
CH. x.]
389
When
Constantine became king of Constantinople, and heard of the body, he sent and transported it to the city of Constantinople, and built to
her a great church in the which he placed her body.
from.
Many
miracles were
shown from
it.
LEGEND OF
On
this
ST.
us,
and
HELENA.
1
temple of the Holy Resurrection
The holy queen Helena in the twentieth year of
the reign of her son Constantine, after the assembly
of the holy council at Nicaea, took great riches and
I have made a vow to
said to her son,
go to the
Holy Resurrection, and to seek for the body of the
The king was very glad,
cross which giveth life.'
and sent with her soldiers, and gave unto her much
When she came there and had taken a
wealth.
.
'
She
it
I. e.
the
390
[CH. \.
places,
Thou
to
build
all
rather with
oughtest
thy doing.
such good building as is customary, and give what
remains of the money to the poor.' She hearkened
breath.
Amen.
THE FINDING
On
this
OF THE CROSS.
cross of our
CH. x.j
391
the God-loving queen Helena, mother of Constantine, when she cleared away the heap at Golgotha.
make
came
'
cross,
will
believe in Christ.'
Then
the priest
prayed over the bitter water, and it became exceeding sweet, so that all the people drank thereof and
their cattle also.
Howbeit
He
Isaac,
when he wished
to
in his bottle
full
of worms.
392
[CH. x.
On
Alexandria.
:
of Alexandria.
CH. x.]
aunt's
son,
the
of
meaning
these
393
hymns.
He
unto her, and declared also the punishment of sinners, and the reward of the righteous.
When she returned to the house, she avowed to her
father that she believed in Christ Jesus.
declared
it
all
these
Amen.
LEGEND OF ABBA
how he
394
[CH. x.
The
let loose
upon him
lions
in
us.
Egypt.
Amen.
'
'
CH. x.]
395
rise
of
were wont to
out of poverty
wherewith
sell
them
in order to
make
the feast.
The
angel
him a
the
fish for
fish.
one-third of a dinar
Then he must go
When
and not
to
to the seller of
open
wheat
was astonished
to find
When
need
of.
came
in the likeness
'
'
396
[CH. x.
Amen.
On
this
Anba
Zacharias.
who
While they
the Apostle, seeking
for the one convenient, they heard that a certain man,
having procured by power of station and money a
counsel one
were
letter
him
should be convenient.
from the
sultan,
Mark
Therefore
them a
patriarch.
step
The
laity (notables)
CH. x.]
397
Many
which a
lions.
Then
the space
None
all
him
not.
And when
the
And
the
persecution
God the
all
these
troubles to vanish away, and the governor commanded the saint to repair the churches, and to
restore unto them all things whatsoever were taken
churches.
Thus
eight years.
398
Then he removed
May
his prayers
[CH. x.
to the Lord.
all.
Amen.
On
this
day
patriarch of Alexandria,
Butros,
all the
martyrs.
father
CH. x.]
consecrated by him,
first
399
He
church
glorified
there
is
saith the
Church, that
4oo
to the
dungeon
When
(sic\
[CH. x.
messengers
be killed
would
many
die for his people and to
he wished to
be with Christ so he sent to bid all the people
come, and comforted them, and counselled them to
for his sake,
faith.
was going
that Peter
to the
'
'
took
till
St. Peter,
sit
CH. x.]
401
said,
I sit
He
was
May
his prayers
us.
Amen.
VOL. n.
Coptic form of
Yuhanna
D d
or John.
402
name of Mark
During
were many afflictions and many
l
the
[CH. x.
The
French, came and took possession of Egypt.
inhabitants of Cairo rose against them, and there
was war between them
Then
the
desolate.
The
many
adversi-
for
is
its
borders
not an
official title.
his
Mark
CH. x.]
403
asked of the Coptic patriarch and the other patriarchs to pray for the rise of the water of the Nile.
So Markus and all the priests and Christian people
came together and prayed to God, who hearkened to
their prayers, and made arise the water of the Nile
higher than its wont.
When he was sick with the sickness of death he
called unto him the chief of the bishops, and said
unto him, My time is come to leave this world
so
must thou and thy brethren meet together and
After three
consecrate a patriarch
neglect it not.'
the
and
he was
his
soul
to
Lord,
days
departed
buried in the church of Azbikiah which he had
'
built
sat
D d
Babylon 167.
see
Baldakyn,
46.
Altar-canopy.
Alchemy 251.
Balsam 331.
Banner 311.
Baptism 262
Alms-dish 289.
Altar 1-36.
- board
3. 7.
of
283.
wood
Beduin 240.
Bell 45. 50. 79. 273. 316. 323.
6-7.
portable 25-28.
slab 7 seq.
Ambon
64. 314.
see
Amice,
'AJAVOS
Vestments.
Books 239-246.
Bowing before altar 309. 319.
280.
Ampulla
Amula
56.
56.
Burnus,
60.
Vestments.
Chrism 19
78.
II.
etc.
Cap
Aumbry
Cambutta 228.
Candelabrum 68.
see
(Vestments).
Armlet,
266.
lights 56.
of
fire
299.
Index.
406
built
over martyrs'
bodies 362. 367. 368. 369.
388.
dedicated to martyrs 360. 365.
Churches
Cidaris 203 n.
Dikanikion 219.
Diptychs 49. 289.
8iarKOKa\vfifJ.a
46.
Dome, eucharistic,
Dove 383.
see Aster.
Circumcision 263.
Colobion no.
Coloured vestments 112. 113. 195.
196. 200.
298. 315.
320.
Confessionary, see Crypt.
see
Emblems
Ephod
fTTifiaviKia
seq.
- tank
349.
128
etc.:
see
Vest-
see
Amice
ments.
iis
75.
234-235.
2 73-
102.
203. etc.
(Vestments).
Eras, Arabic terms
183.
92.
benedictional
182.
Vestments.
Corona
39- 39 1
'
Cope,
231.
*yx f lp lov 144 n. 163. 169.
22.
for,
96
Ewer 53.
Excommunication 399,
n.
etc.
400.
340.
-
pectoral 231.
Crypt 13 seq.
Cucullus 198.
Cufic writing 253.
Cumhdach 246.
Cursive writing 241.
Curtain 30 seq. 39. 194.
Cymbal
Fan,
see
Fanon
Gabathae
see
Vestments.
72.
Georgia 51.
Girdle
Dalmatic,
Flabellum.
122.
Vest-
Index.
Gong
Good
8 1.
Xfpvtfiov 54.
\IT(0I>IOV
Greek
342-43
vestments passim,
see
etc.
chapters
on vestments.
Griffin's
egg
407
78.
IOI.
Labyrinth 368.
Lafafah, see Corporal.
Lamps 69 seq. 194. 327.
Lance, eucharistic 44.
Legend
89.
Lenten
Magician 387.
Malabar Christians 134.
Images 83-84.
Immersion 267. 383.
Imposition of hands 310. 315.
Mandatum
Hood
183.
- box 62.
Infulae 214.
Insufflation 271. 273. 320. 321.
Irish usage 51. 60. 61. 81. 112.
Maronite
350.
altar 24.
etc.
Matrimony 323.
Melkite community
cross 314.
curtain 283.
Crown (Vestments).
Monuments 203.
Mosque 77.
Mount Athos, 80. 91. 93. 96.
gospel 286.
Mural paintings 83
Mitre, see
seq. 360.
Index.
408
Myron 330
see also
Chrism and
Oils.
(j)aivu>\ioi>
(j>iKu>\iw
49
n.
Phare 74.
Napkin 164.
Nestorian altar
6.
24. 33.
chalice 38.
Piscina 17.
Planeta 196.
jroXuoravpioi' 196.
Ne0eX?7 46.
Nile, rise of 395. 403.
- to saints
96.
Oils, holy 56. 269. 270. 272. 325.
331
327.
seq.
see
also
kummus
321.326.328.335. 339.340.
39-
Purgatory 297.
318.
Purification 263.
bishop 313.
55-
deacon 320.
metropolitan 312.
- monk
308. 322.
patriarch 302seq. 396. 401. etc.
priest 319.
- reader
322.
- sacristan
301.
singer 301. 322.
- subdeacon
321. 322.
Osiris, worship of 94. 248.
Ostrich-egg 77.
Oven 277.
seq.
68.
311.
342.
Rosary 238.
Sacraments, the Coptic 262-329.
Sacred letters of Sanutius 3.
Sacring
bell 82.
Sagavard 214.
1
60
n.
Salt,
Palm
344. 349.
Sunday 349.
Paschal candle 68.
Paten 39.
etc.
use
of
274
n.
282.
34i-
Pelican 243.
Sepulcrum
122.
Persecution 375.
Sick,
irepi<rTf)6ioii
17.
292.
Index.
Sign of the cross 270. 274. 287.
288.
Vestments.
319. 320.
322.325.344.345. 366. 382
bis. 383. 384. 399.
Singing-irons 281.
299.
409
315.
321.
Synaxar 259.
Syrian altar 24. 27.
-
seq.
199.
seq. 199.
Crozier or staff 217 seq. 346.
- Dalmatic
98. 109 seq. 276.
Epigonation 169. 235 seq.
- Girdle
98-100. 103-104. 124
seq.
n. 163.
164.
200
Mat.
Tabak,
Tailasan, see Vestments.
see
Tarbush 201.
epitrachelion
128. 129 seq.
7.
or patrashil
etc.
I.
Tailasan 120.
Vestments, eastern origin of 125.
Tonsure 322.
Tower
143 seq.
pall
162.
seq.
Omophorion or
81.
Washing
Varkass 122.
Vartaped 227. 228.
Veil,.eucharistic, 45. 285. 286. etc.
- Lenten
35.
- of crozier
219.
the altar
9.
342.
- of eucharistic vessels
292.
of hands at mass 287.
- of feet 122.
145 n. 350. 361.
Water mixed with wine 284.
Urceolus 54.
341.
277. 291.
Worshipping the patriarch 312.
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